Continued from Page 1 American government, he said. Report ers use the same sources and "kowtow to the same administration officials. "Everybody puts the same spin on their stories." he said. With reporters repeatedly using the same sources for information. Solomon said media functions as a propaganda machine. "H‘s (he steady downbeat of catch words that influences public thinking, especially in a crisis situation," he said. "The term ‘investigative reporter' should be a redundancy, but it's not." Corporate ownership of the media leads to editors and reporters suppress ing the news because they fear backlash from management over corporate-criti cal stories, Solomon said. "With whatever issues we're con cerned about, there is a blocking through the news media that prevents change,” he said. "Editors are there to keep management happy and couch cor porate bias in professional terms. Most of the (media) censorship is self-censor ship." Solomon said editors and reporters do have some latitude in their reporting, but that in the end "it's a matter of who owns the media. The training (of Jour nalists) could be better, but there would still be the corporate atmosphere.” The end result of journalists relying on the same people for information means that "while these reporters like to pretend they're outside the picture, they're actually a part of it." Solomon said he has gotten a mixed reaction from his book from the media. "(The book) has gotten a wide variety of responses." he said. "Everything from glowing praise to condemnation." "We hone in own newspaper owner ship. so maybe that's it.” he said. No PUKIUW n«HV*> Swrcpiukn <•'«* Ociobn < I990 Fo» compiptf Ofum jot) rutpl viW yOu> c