while in this he simply gave you answers that were unsuprising if you read the newspapers, and that you weren't even asking.
plese keep in mind that you are particularly well read. For those who are telegraph readers, watch nine news, and aren't chardonnay socialists and social terrorists like yourself, you may be surprised to find that they DIDN'T know this stuff - Particularly mainstream America.
The kind of reporting (crap as it is) we are used to is a step up from theirs, which consist mainly of reading press releases.
I think you both need a bit of a reality check - even for those who are well read the media is a long, long way from being a reliable or even relevant source of information
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Three people in the UK are missing in the UK after a flash flood - front page news. One person dies from starvation or disease every four seconds - nobody cares.
We know this happens. It's not a new piece of information, and thus outside the lexical scope of The News.
Some stockbroker has now been forgiven for his lies - front page news. Tens of thousands in Iraq are dead because our leaders lied - nobody cares.
We know. Yesterday's news. the forgiveness just happened. News. The problem is, is that our memories are too short.
Why won't the mainstream press say it?
Because they prefer to continue the cycle and exploit human ignorance and greed.
no resale value. You won't sell tomorrows papaers if you cut straight to it. The rules of drama and storytelling forbid it as well, before we start getting all anti-corporation again.
Re: It's worse than I thought...5tepheAugust 17 2004, 20:54:01 UTC
also, 'The Media' is a fictional entity, with no morality, duty, sense, fear, love, hatred... or any other human attribute it is occasionally credited with. These things are just constructs, designed to serve the desires of the largest body of people they can, (in order, primarially, to make money) through providing 'information'. It doesn't have to be important, relevant, or even at times, true. It just has to run.
If we want to live in a Just world, then we have to set new rules for business, the media, government, financial institutions, and the populace, that have JUSTICE as their founding principles. That, of course, will have to be based on some agreed code of morality.
At the moment, there is only supply and demand governing these things.
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plese keep in mind that you are particularly well read. For those who are telegraph readers, watch nine news, and aren't chardonnay socialists and social terrorists like yourself, you may be surprised to find that they DIDN'T know this stuff - Particularly mainstream America.
The kind of reporting (crap as it is) we are used to is a step up from theirs, which consist mainly of reading press releases.
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We know this happens. It's not a new piece of information, and thus outside the lexical scope of The News.
Some stockbroker has now been forgiven for his lies - front page news. Tens of thousands in Iraq are dead because our leaders lied - nobody cares.
We know. Yesterday's news. the forgiveness just happened. News. The problem is, is that our memories are too short.
Why won't the mainstream press say it?
Because they prefer to continue the cycle and exploit human ignorance and greed.
no resale value. You won't sell tomorrows papaers if you cut straight to it. The rules of drama and storytelling forbid it as well, before we start getting all anti-corporation again.
and ouch.
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This is the front page of the BBC News website as of 1:30pm today:
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If we want to live in a Just world, then we have to set new rules for business, the media, government, financial institutions, and the populace, that have JUSTICE as their founding principles. That, of course, will have to be based on some agreed code of morality.
At the moment, there is only supply and demand governing these things.
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