You'd hope the media would do at least a halfway decent job of trying to get them informed on at least a surface level, but that would not be a big seller.
Well, I'm a history buff. The 'media' has always been this way, back to the revolutionary period.
They present 'news', not "information". They're telling stories, as you said, to sell.
That's just the nature of the beast.
147 posted on 06/01/2006 7:57:00 AM PDT by Dominic Harr
(Conservative = Careful, as in 'Conservative with money')
You are right about the media being flavored for whatever the consumer will eat. I guess at times it has been better and at times much worse. Right now there is just so much out there to eat that the quality has gotten very bad...but also very good if you want it. Most people just find good quality news to be boring...which it is...but too many people cannot even begin to discern the difference.
150 posted on 06/01/2006 8:06:34 AM PDT by P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)