We do things different up here, you bet.

dvrabel on 27/4/2006 at 17:50

Wouldn't a Press Accuracy and Completeness metric be better than Press Freedom? A free press that chooses to only report trivial matters isn't much use.

BEAR on 28/4/2006 at 00:51

Its a symbiotic relationship. Why spend time and possibly have risk when you can just sensationalize retarded shit and take your political news strait from the white house press? I also chock it up to the 150 million dumb fucks that live in this country that have a hard time feeling the huge cock filling their asses, so they need one a little bigger every day.

Im sure the news people think they are actually reporting, and while we are building a police state just as fast as can be, control of the media is a must have.

Fuck them.

OMG AMBER ALERT!! STUPID WHITE SLUT GOT WHAT SHE DESERVED, MORE AT 11 (AND 12 AND 1 AND...)!!! RAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEE

TheGreatGodPan on 28/4/2006 at 02:22

Quote Posted by Frikkinjerk

Actually, major corporations do underwrite alot of the news we get. Anyone here ever seen the movie 'Manufacturing Consent'? In it they show how respected newspapers like the New York Times edit stories to the point where they lose their original meaning and they do it because corporations have a vested interest in how certain stories affect the political and economic climate they operate in.

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/

I agree with (http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/11/chomsky_scifi_t.html) Bryan Caplan. People naturally want what they want, and companies just oblige them. Murdoch didn't come up with the idea that the media was biased; cranky right-wingers had been saying that for years and he just realized he could make a lot of money by filling that niche. It seems to me there are more and more media sources than before (remember when there were three big T.V networks?), and with the internet its a lot easier for people to seek out information or even fact check the news. The question is how much people want it.