The media is garbage (rant)

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Larry T. Spider

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The US TV news media is complete ****. They are left leaning, but the bigger problem is that they are ****.

1. Interactive news
The local fox news in Austin is like a ****** choose your own adventure book for children. Want to see a man get hit by a train? Text A. Want to see the cutest kitten ever covered in glitter? Text B. If thats not bad enough, they then ask you to comment on the news on facebook. This is a terrible idea for obvious reasons.

2. Interviewing the "common man".
Any time they need to kill 30 seconds of air time, they interview somebody on the street about what happened for an opinion - this is different from an eye witness.

Reporter: Did you know that there is a rapist in Austin.
Random girl: Like OMG, thats so scary! It could have been me! Im like never leaving the house again because I dont feel safe!

Reporter: A lot of people are moving to Austin. Thoughts?

Hipster who just moved here: I know its terrible man, with all the traffic and stuff, it sucks dude.

Same **** everytime. What insight does the common man have? Even a poll would be better than talking to one person that isnt representative of anybody but himself.

3. Blatant fear-mongering.

Took me 30 seconds to find an example.

A bridge collapsed in washington state. Any type of bridge problem brings out mass hysteria of the fear mongers that we call the US media.

Headline with a pic of the wash bridge:
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Excellent post!! (OP)
Better and more creative than I ever could have done, and HIT THE NAIL SQUARE ON THE HEAD.

Exactly as you have outlined it.
 
Part of it is pointed straight at the American sheeple not giving a rat's *** about real news and having any clue what matters anymore except what satisfies a instant craving and avoids sacrifice and pain.
 
The news is a business and a big one and hungers for more advertising dollars to keep the beast rich. So they run what will produce the most customers for the folks
who buy the ads. It has always been that way. Do you think they run astrological columns every day so that people can plan their lives intelligently?

Most people in the news business hate this mess but they have to cater to lowest common denominator shoppers the merchant class is chasing---and the lowest common denominator in American society at present is pretty low.

That is also why the movie companies produce stupid trash like the Star Trek and Iron Man series and other blow-em-up garbage. More people will buy tickets for that than some thougtful subject.

Get used to it because it is going to get worse. For example, tonight there is a biopic on television about LIberace. Really.
 
movies are not purely for entertainment and never have been. And how entertaining is watching people getting massacred? It is reflective of the overall degeneracy of our sewage society that a large segment of the movie going public goes for pure entertainment consisting of mass slaughters in vengeance tales.

If you look at journalism down through history it is rare that it is an objective search for truth. Most newspapers, for example, started off as propaganda sheets for one party or another. The cult of objectivity was a product of journalism schools when the profession started trying to take itself seriously and its practitioners tired of being paid propagandists for whatever wealthy POS owned their paper.

As one of the greats, AJ Liebling, once said, freedom of the press exists for those who own the presses.
 
The media produces a lot of garbage for peple who like that sort of thing. There is also a lot of good, seious journalism going on. It kind of boggles my mind that people get information from right wing radio, designed to engage the emotions not the cerebral cortex, when the conservative side of issues gets portrayed much more effectivey on NPR. Of course, on NPR you would have ot listen to other valid viewpoints treated politely, not some bizarre assed summary easy to refute.
 
So sick of seeing a young, innocent Dzhokhar Tsarnaev holding a carnation .It's almost like he had an image campaign launched by the MSM.
 
Crockett:

Enlighten us, give us some examples of serious journalism.....would be curious as to what your opinion on
serious journalism is......
 
"The media produces a lot of garbage for peple who like that sort of thing. There is also a lot of good, seious journalism going on. It kind of boggles my mind that people get information from right wing radio, designed to engage the emotions not the cerebral cortex, when the conservative side of issues gets portrayed much more effectivey on NPR. Of course, on NPR you would have ot listen to other valid viewpoints treated politely, not some bizarre assed summary easy to refute."

This comment could not be more off target. Talk about drinking the liberal propaganda cool-aid.
 
Where do you get your news UP? You listen to NPR? Do you hear them disguising opinion as fact or giving hour upon hour of opinion and slanted stories? I like it because they use real information, real facts, real experts intelligently interviewed. Do you hear anyone treated discourteously and not allowed to present their views? Do you hear guests or interviewers popping off with idiotic, unsupported phrases like "worst president ever."

As far as journalism I like, Majorwhiteapples, a good recent example was Time Magazine's "Bitter Pill" which took a large and complex subject and boiled it down into an information-packed piece with actionable conclusions. Frontline from PBS also did a series of articles on the 401K programs and how vast numbers of Americans are preparing poorly for retirement. Again, it's a story of massive importance because of its impact on our nation's overall financial health. I'm sure that those who like their news predigested for them will say "everybody ought to know how to plan for retirement" or know how to avoid getting screwed by the health care system. The stories I like tell what happened with a lot of facts and let me make my own conclusions.
 
Is this much different from what is going on in the US now?


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Joe Fan said:
Is this much different from what is going on in the US now?


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The difference is that the media in the US mostly go along with this when they agree with the political agenda of who's in charge. For the most part, they don't have to be complicit. If you pissed off Goebbels and the Reich Ministry, you'd end up in Dachau.
 
I dont know if you have followed the recent story in Idaho? There was alot of misinformation initially. It involved the sexual assault of a 5-year old girl, by other minors. Initially the story was "gang-rape by Syrian refugees" but that does not appear to be the case. It seems that the story is two slightly older boys talked a younger boy into "touching" the victim. And the three boys involved might be immigrants from Iraq or the Sudan. And they may or may not be refugees. The facts are unclear, partially because all involved are minors, but at a minimum the story is not as bad as originally screamed on the internet.

But this is not the point.

Here is the point.

Read what Obama's appointed US Attorney for Idaho, Wendy J. Olson, had to say --

" ..... The spread of false information or inflammatory or threatening statements about the perpetrators or the crime itself reduces public safety and may violate federal law. We have seen time and again that the spread of falsehoods about refugees divides our communities. I urge all citizens and residents to allow Mr. Loebs and Chief Kingsbury and their teams to do their jobs.”
https://www.justice.gov/usao-id/pr/...r-old-twin-falls-and-law-enforcement-response

I have worked out of multiple USAOs over the years and that is a whopper. I never heard or seen anything like that. These people are, generally, legally and politically savvy. She is saying it's a federal crime to make an inflammatory statement or spread information that may later turn out to be false.

That's incorrect. The Supremes have dealt with this area of the law many, many times and there is no such exception to the 1st Amendment. No matter how distasteful it may be, it's all part of the public debate.

Threatening federal prosecution of Constitutionally-protected free speech is more than wrong. It is a tactic right of out Goebbels playbook.
 
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