News media pet peeves.

[jimmoyer]

30 to 40 years ago there were even less corporations
than that current SIX, with just
three networks to bring you the news.

Now we have how many broadcast networks ?
ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, UPN, WB, PAX ....

We have alternatives to check out on the internet
to see and hear different points of view from any
other nation in the world, and we didn't have that access
before, did we ?

And although most people get their news from the
mainstream media ---- that has always been the case
because they aren't as pathetic as we are in our hunger
for more.

They are leading their own lives and to me
apathy indicates a citizenry that is not enraged enough
to put more effort in the matter.

Most voters and news watchers do so out of passion,
and habit.

90 percent will vote when clear and present danger
and necessity require it.

That kind of involvement shows when something
is really really wrong.

I know we'll argue round and round on that point.

Or not...

 

[Reverend Blair]

You had independent newspapers and magazines. They competed with each other. You had independent radio and television stations and the networks you had competed with each other.

Now you have six corporations. They compete for market share, but they all have common corporate interests.

The US isn't the only country suffering from this. We have hardly any dissenting voices up here either. Asia has similar problems. So does Europe. The US is more advanced in its media decline, but the rest of us are rushing to catch up.

 

[ElPolaco]

During the Iraqi invasion (pre "mission accomplished") it was really hard to find a TV news network that wasn't anything besides an administration cheerleader. Most of those networks have mellowed just a bit. Still, all you see from Iraq is wholesome american troopies handing out candy and holding babies. On dish network you can get Free Speech TV, but a lot of that is slightly outdated and poorly done.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: News media pet peeves

The invasion coverage was embarrassing. So was the coverage in the lead up to war. A huge failing of the fourth estate in the US. Some of your better news services apologised in the end, but the failure still continues to a large extent.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Re: RE: News media pet peeves

The invasion coverage was embarrassing. So was the coverage in the lead up to war. A huge failing of the fourth estate in the US. Some of your better news services apologised in the end, but the failure still continues to a large extent.

a truism..

I still recall ( groan) the "road to Baghdad " series on CNN......and felt like Rome had less loose its centurians...With all that sensationalism, flags flying.....but tanks instead of chariots.......

.........and they repeated this ad nauseum.. Pathetic.

All that sand felt like scenes from Lawrence of Arabia......

Real life imitates the movies??

no wonder the population has a problem differentiating reality from fiction......particulary when "war" was made out to be so "glorious".

One has to wonder who writes their pathetic scripts.

 

[the caracal kid]

when it comes to war, more than anywhere else, the entire production is scripted. it must be. if the truth were told rather than the rhetoric needed to sell people on doing the very things they deem unacceptable in their normal lives the government would be toppled.

 

[missile]

My media complaint is that we have no news locally from Friday night until Monday morning. All the local radio stations use only preprogramed material on the weekends. The world could conceivably end and we wouldn't hear about it!