Framing Class

I found Diana Kendall's "Framing Class'' to be very creditable. The last couple essays there has been many comments, in class and on blogs, questioning the creditability of those essays due to the fact of no resources. However, Diana's essay continually used a variety of resources. I see Diana's point on one side of the issue, but I also disagree with her. She mentions several different TV shows, movies, and other forms of media that have a humorous unrealistic view on social classes, that "the mass media plays class differences for laughs", and how this is one of our down falls. I agree that there needs to be outlets and different revenues that are available that gives our society an accurate view of reality, however that doesn't mean there isn't a place for just plain entertainment. When I take a time out of reality, and spend money to be entertained by going to a movie I absolutely hate going to a movie that is full of reality. I want to go to a movie that is fun, makes me laugh, and takes me out of reality for ninety minutes. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves. The opposite side of that is as we laugh at each other we need to be aware that it is just purely entertainment.
Diana talks about civic journalism; meaning that there needs to be a responsibility from the media/journalists that give the public the truth. She poses that there are journalists out there who need to follow a civic journalism approach. I was left wondering what outlet of media that this type of journalism would actually be able to make it in front of the public, if what she says is accurate; referring to the monopoly of companies that control the media, and the news. How is a lone journalist who is going against the grain going to be heard when these huge companies portray the information the mass public sees in the way they want us to see it?