SD on 21/4/2008 at 08:53
You're surely don't see much of it from Slovakia anyway?
Rogue Keeper on 21/4/2008 at 09:03
:cheeky: If I get that intelligence job, I'll see more than CommChat can handle.
Koki on 21/4/2008 at 10:15
Quote Posted by Bebop
The media has a ridiculous amount of influence in our politics. They frame our political discourse in any way they want. And because they are focused on ratings rather than issues (boring) they go for the cheap entertainment and controversy.
And that's what people want. No one ever forced anyone else to watch Fox News or anything else. This is like blaming arms dealers for wars.
Kolya on 21/4/2008 at 10:45
Quote Posted by Koki
This is like blaming arms dealers for wars.
:idea:
Aerothorn on 21/4/2008 at 13:08
While no one bears singular (or even most) of the place for the Iraq War, the military industrial complex DID have quite a lot to do with it (Remember "Lockheed Martin and the Revolving Door?"
The problem with saying "it's what people wanted" is that what people want is fluid - through careful manipulation one can change other's desires to match one's own.
Rogue Keeper on 21/4/2008 at 13:20
For example, videogames...
fett on 21/4/2008 at 14:21
I thought of this thread when I saw this on a T-shirt today:
Front: Anti-Idiocracy Kit
Back: Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required.
demagogue on 21/4/2008 at 17:06
To me, the definitive criticism of journalism was given by Kierkegaard in the 1850s and nothing has really changed since then. It's the nature of the whole enterprise to be salacious and appeal to the baser parts of being human, and to reduce the epic happenings of the world to tired soundbites reinforcing superficial norms. You can only really trust people who have a stake in the activity itself to give you an accurate impression of what's going on and put it in real human terms, especially in politics.
That said, I follow the news everyday because I think it's important to be in touch with the world. One just has to be able to get to the core of a story and skim off the crap ... I'm congenitally suspect of what they're literally saying, but I think about what's probably really going on behind the scenes to give rise to what we see on the surface that they're reporting. The crap is like an arrow pointing to a deeper truth, that very often has an entirely different spin. It's just unfortunate that not everyone reads the news with the same suspicion.
37637598 on 21/4/2008 at 18:37
Inline Image:
http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/images/doa.jpgAll I know is that to me
You look like you're lots of fun
Open up your loving arms
Watch out, here I comeWoah, slang today has really gotten bad. I was almost swept up by a tornado when I saw the t-rex bones. The tower is almost complete though, so only a few more weeks of driving and dealing with clarence, "It's not the holiday inn, it's the BunkHouse inn. Plenty of hot water... when you turn the water on it takes a few minutes for the hot water to get there, but when it comes, there's plenty of it."
I really hate my job now. See what happens? Damn movie... I love what it does to women though! Sad endings choke me up though.
I get all my news, political and otherwise, through the National Enquirer... And Wikipedia. The only two true reliable sources. But really, cnn.com, NPR.org, and HERE of course. I really dis-like the damn taunting news casters and their big heads. They are tools. I bet I lost anyone's attention by now... I bet I could gain it back if I typed
FUCKING in big bold letters like that... But seriously, there hasn't been a good movie out that I've seen, since 'Big Fish' (Tim Burton), and it's about time someone new takes his place for writing impeckable films. Media used to be a good way to alarm citizens of weather, wars, and some simple "DinnerTime" entertainment. Then came fox...
fett on 21/4/2008 at 20:29
Between this and your post in the rape thread, it's become clear to me that the inbreeding has gotten completely out of control.
