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Just how much of the "News" is manufactured?
8/6/05
| John Knight
Posted on 08/06/2005 7:32:28 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:32:29 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
To: MNJohnnie
"It is not what people don't know that hurts them, but what they DO KNOW that ain't so." - Mark Twain
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:34:44 PM PDT
by
Iris7
("A pig's gotta fly." - Porco Rosso)
To: MNJohnnie
I'm pretty sure that the MSM has been making up stories to fit their own agenda for a very long time. I have always been leery of anything the press has to say.
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:35:23 PM PDT
by
beandog
(Bean the Real Dog - 10/3/90-6/13/05 - Doggie Heaven is Lucky to have you.)
To: MNJohnnie
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:40:05 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: MNJohnnie
I think the term is "dead cat".
When you have no news to report, you throw a dead cat in front of a politician and report how he reacts.
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:40:21 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Islam, the religion of the criminally insane.)
To: MNJohnnie
Just look at the kidnappings and disappearances the news media all cover. You'd think these were the only kidnappings and disappearances that ever happen, but--coincidentally, yeah, sure--all the media outlets cover the same ones.
I've been involved in several (non-political) news events as a witness, and what I actually witnessed was almost completely different from what the TV and papers described, in content and meaning.
What's "news" is, in I'd say 75% of the cases, what the media outlets SAY is news.
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:40:33 PM PDT
by
Darkwolf377
("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
To: MNJohnnie
I am not so sure. I wonder if maybe this sort of thing has been going on all along and it is only the rise of the "New" media that is catching them at it. It used to be called "Yellow Journalism" and has been around since the first forms of mass news existed.
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:41:49 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Tom Tancredo- The Republican Party's Very Own Cynthia McKinney.)
To: beandog
It used to be called 'Yellow Journalism'.
Prior to the Spanish-American War, William Randoplh Hearst's newspapers manufactured much of the 'evidence' of Spanish atrocities done to the Cubans. This created the 'mindset' for the rush to judgment that the Battleship Maine disaster was a Spanish mind. (When the last thing Spain wanted was US intervention.)
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:42:52 PM PDT
by
Reily
(Reilly (Dr Doom))
To: beandog
Note that much of the "news" is poll data funded by the MSM (to drive the Jihad on Bush) along with amplification of 'Rat charges and complaints.
MSM are becoming irrelevant.
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:43:18 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Don't Tread on Me; Live Free or Die)
To: MNJohnnie
The editor's motto,
"If it bleeds, it leads,"
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:43:23 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Islam, the religion of the criminally insane.)
To: MNJohnnie
Unfortunately we have a lot of writers and broadcasters who have very limited knowledge of the subjects they're covering. Therefore, we end up with slants based on their political bias, rather than actual knowledge of the subject.
For instance, as a business person, I see this all the time in my local paper. The business writers don't know what they're talking half of the time. I read their coverage and I respond with "holy crap." They have no ability to read between the lines, to analyze, think critically, etc.
It's an embarrassment to the field of journalism.
To: MNJohnnie
My God -- the NYT, the chronicle and publisher of liberal socialist lies, is the master of spin...look at the experience they have. Manufacture news? It is a hallmark day when they print the factual truth...
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:45:48 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: MNJohnnie
Whenever there is a "News" story that I have personal knowlegd about, I always find erros.
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:47:56 PM PDT
by
StACase
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To: MNJohnnie
#1 made-up story for the last 5 years...Pres. Bush's approval rating. It is NOT in the low-40's. I doubt if it's in the low-50's. The media controls the stories and they also control the polls. Thus we get Clinton at 65% during impeachment, and G.W. Bush rarely hits the 50 mark.
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posted on
08/06/2005 8:04:10 PM PDT
by
BonnieJ
To: MNJohnnie
Look no further than the last two friday "poll dumps" for the sunday news programs. The MSM dumps a couple of negative polls about GWBush just in time for the dinosaur media to spin a recession.
The media manufactures by omitting stories such as the Air America finance scandal.
To: Darkwolf377
Further, what's as important to note is what is NOT reported. One of the reasons for the rise in mega-weather reporting on local news channels is to burn up time not talking about important local issues. Think - how long does it take to report the weather forecast? A couple minutes, tops.
To: Iris7
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posted on
08/06/2005 8:11:03 PM PDT
by
A message
(RINOs and Democrats must be voted out of office for the safety of our nation.)
To: Freedom4US
Think - how long does it take to report the weather forecast? A couple minutes, tops.There used to be a station that showed the forecast between two other stories--ten seconds, and out. That's all it deserves. Why do we need all this cold front and high pressure crap no one understands, just tell me the forecast.
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posted on
08/06/2005 8:11:33 PM PDT
by
Darkwolf377
("The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they'll be when you kill them."-Wm. Clayton)
To: MNJohnnie
Seeing that Congress is not in session for a month, there will be no news.
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posted on
08/06/2005 8:13:37 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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