True, but somehow your words here seem very familiar. I wonder, why is that? ;-)
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The media are a product of their viewership. They deliver what the people demand. Many posters on here were just as bad, accepting unconfirmed reports and rumours as facts when it fitted in with their world view.
Yes, that is true, isn't it? Well put. I like the way you said that. Sensationalism sells and attracts viewers. We have to be careful not to believe everything that we read and see on TV. (If it wasn't so early and I didn't have a plane to catch, I would be a little more coherent.)
CNN is challenging World Wrestling?
True. No one delivers news anymore. What they 'produce' is a 'product' that is 'targeted' for their specific market.
Would people support a group of people that merely gather and report facts, without dressing it up or spinning it? Wouldn't that be interesting? It most certainly would be unique for today.
the "rumors" the posters here were commenting on were almost entirely items reported on TV news as fact! The value of the commentary here on FR, however, is that enough intelligent and informed posters are available to sort through the garbage presented as news. Katrina is an example of an too much garbage and too few alternative sources (due to the evac and phone lines being down) for the filter here to work as well and as fast.
Perhaps not.
MSM and Hollywood subscribers/viewers continue to drop. And they see what works (Fox News, G/PG-rated films, Mel Gibson), but they absolutely refuse to imitate what works.
The media's response to decreased viewers is to become more outrageous. But viewers have a choice, and they refuse to be lied to or offended.
I don't think many people are demanding to be lied to. Unless they are leftist Bush-haters who need a steady supply of misinformation to feed their hate. But this is a relatively small percentage of the potential audience. To believe the media, you need to simultaneously believe that GW Bush is both incompetent and an evil genius.
I tend to believe that the MSM is orchestrated propaganda. Made mostly ineffective by the internet.
True, but somehow your words here seem very familiar. I wonder, why is that? ;-)
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