[Reverend Saltine]

Don't say, "the administration," or "the EPA"--say "OBAMA." Give him full credit....

[Genoa]

News anchors in the old days were hired for what they knew, combined of course with the ability to speak, and the best ones were sort of odd-looking: Murrow, Huntley, Brinkley, Cronkite.... Most had worked their way up through newspapers and radio. You might disagree with their opinions, but the blatant opinion was generally kept out of the actual news, and you always had to respect their expertise. Now it’s pretty boys (and girls) reading from teleprompters. End of rant.

[mrsmith]

Good until “At the end of the Roman Empire...”

It was ‘Bread and Circus’ that provided the news to the subjects. One went to the forum and gossiped, while enjoying the ‘free’ entertainment.
Today we have advertising paid for with government subsidized consumer spending- it’s the exact same thing.

[9thLife]

It's not only the content of news that is embraced, it's the style, the manner of presentation---and in the long run, the presentation is far more corrosive, far more deadly than the content.

This is McLuhan restated: "The medium is the message." It is shown to be an axiom by watching TV broadcast in another language from another nation...turn down the volume and...it really doesn't matter what they're saying. They have laid hold of your attention, and that's all they want.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’m a “trained” newsreader (took the course in the Army) and I’ll do it for only half of what they pay Brian. LOL

[Berlin_Freeper]

http://i.imgur.com/eaT3rFu.jpg

[WildHighlander57]

Good one by Mr Rappoport!

Ping to this one; Mr. Rappoport gets into the psychology of persuasion....

[FrankR]