I know a lot of people think the media is one sided politically and that's not really what this question is about. Considering there are so many people on here talking about buried truths about our government, past and present, why is the media currently having some of the best ratings it's ever had? I generally thought people didn't like to be lied to. Or is the media really telling the truth and people who are really into politics just blowing hot air saying that the media lies?
2006-08-05 09:26:05 · 8 answers · asked by Lecrapface 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
When you step back and take a look at what the media is broadcasting, the facts are in there. For example, we get the basic facts about what is going on between Israel and Hezbollah. Like, we know X number of people were killed in this attack or X number of rockets hit the city of Haifa. However, some commentators put their own spin on things and it's really up to us, the viewer, to be able to distinguish between fact and opinion. We need to have enough common sense about things to draw our own conclusions.
2006-08-05 09:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by Taffi 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can explain your contention in one short sentence.
Lack of in-depth, academic, informative research by the consumer. PERIOD.
You can imagine a world were everything is done in double quick time, No one reads a newspaper, a well researched book is a misnomer, real people political forums are gone and it is ever so easy to turn on the TV and get some lipsticked bimbo or a chiseled hunk feed you the events of the day.
You don't actually have to engage your brain or research what you have just heard, just accept it as fact and go and disseminate the rubbish you have just heard to other uninformed fools.
Yes, the media are having a field day with the less discerning.
For my part they have a harder task.
2006-08-05 16:40:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the media are owned by big corporations. Big corporations have always been concerned with only one thing: money. Not truth. (Not that that's bad for corporations in general.)
So if more people buy magazines or watch TV or whatever when they show something more sensationalistic or with more of a slant one way or another, they will go with that, and it will get more and more slanted/sensationalistic until people vote with their wallets and their remotes. I don't think most journalists want to report lies, but they have editors and the editors have bosses and at some point somebody with a stake in the corporation and little or no journalistic ethics makes the call.
2006-08-05 16:35:13 · answer #3 · answered by C. C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And when did they ever get that job.
Can you cite one moment in history when the news was not a self serving money grabbing business.
Hear Ye Hear Ye Hear Ye all people far and wide come to the castle for bread and wine.
No mention of the cost of bread
Go big Red Go
2006-08-05 17:30:39 · answer #4 · answered by 43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media is owned by three major corporations and slanted toward a political party of their choice. It's called propaganda.
2006-08-05 16:31:49 · answer #5 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, the media are owned by "Big Business" who dictate to them what to print and what to say. I can recall a time when this was not true, but I don't think we'll ever return to those days.
2006-08-05 16:47:01 · answer #6 · answered by worldwise1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The conservative Fox News channel is a current, shameful War on Journalism and everyone knows it.
2006-08-05 16:36:58 · answer #7 · answered by p2prox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
9/18/1851.
2006-08-05 17:15:15 · answer #8 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋