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Date Posted: 14:49:22 12/05/99 Sun
Author: Max
Subject: Re: The Pinko Media
In reply to: GF 's message, "Re: The Pinko Media" on 05:53:12 12/05/99 Sun

As far as the media goes... I always find it fascinating what stories they broadcast and the ones they just drop. There are some stories that as soon as they find out there was no drama involved (i.e. no terrorist plot)it remains unheard. I know someone that did their doctoral dissertation on what popular murder/mystery books can tell us about people in our country. I think a lot. Maybe more than the news can ever show.
Max

> > I heard something last night... I can't remember who
> > the person was that was being quoted, but it went
> > something like this:
> >
> > "News is something that someone, somewhere is trying
> > to suppress...
> > Everything else is advertising."
> >
> > What do you think? Esp for GF, the self-proclaimed
> > news-enthusiast.
> >
> > Thanks. Max
>
> Hi Max,
> I have no expectation that much of the news I'm
> getting is unfiltered. I take it in with this
> attitude: Let's see how the media is interpreting the
> things it's decided we should know about. And I listen
> to the BBC and other foreign broadcasts to get a more
> accurate picture of what's going on in the US.
>
> Does the media have an agenda in reporting the news
> the way they do, and in choosing what they report on.
> Sure. Of course.
>
> What is that agenda? Well, it's probably not as
> insidious as some of my good conspiratorial theorist
> friends would have me believe. The major media in this
> country, and all others will tend to report in a way
> that favors the party in power (the Demopublican Party
> in the US) simply because if they did not, their
> reporters would tend to be much less welcomed at major
> political media events. There are other factors, of
> course, but it's almost as simple as that. Completely
> natural and understandable self-interest.
>
> In a very big sense, they are "advertising" for the
> party/parties in power.
>
> Do they tend, in accordance with the above described
> theory, to suppress (or just not report on) issues
> that might be considered quite important to most
> people? Hmmm. I'm not sure. Let me give them a call
> and ask them. :) GF, SPNE

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