2006-08-19 13:57:06 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
You are assuming that I like it--and what's not to like:
Years ago, when I spent more time with Time Magazine, I rather liked their edgy, even a bit smarmy tone, but I didn't confuse that "edge" with journalism.
When I watch the new NightLine, it's a blood sport to see how moronic Terry Moran will act and speak, but I don't confuse it with journalism.
When I see how spare the staffing of major news organizations has become, I still channel flip through them (when I should be getting intimate with the Times or Post), but I don't confuse it with journalism.
It's a steady diet of Tony Snow-inspired spin, wire service rewrites, and "embedded" marketing messages for entertainment programming--idly received, like "chatter" from a nearby scanner, forming a frayed background of cooked disinformation. It's the information equivalent of "Supersize Me." It's filling all of us up and giving us an obesity of dullness, like digital encephalitis. Yeah, we like it. It's what's for dinner.
2006-08-20 12:00:21 · answer #1 · answered by EXPO 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're only getting brainwashed if you're stupid enough to believe everything. And you're ignorant if you think one news source is sufficient. You have to look at several different news sources from different perspectives to get any sort of real idea of what's going on in the world. By the way, Leno & Letterman are NOT news sources. Anyone who doesn't use his or her brain is brainwashed. The media doesn't have to do it. People do it to themselves.
2006-08-19 21:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by SomeoneUdunno 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey, very few sexists or racists know they're sexists or racists... they just haven't had the reference check yet. Likewise, so many people in the U.S. have never been outside this country and never sat in Hong Kong or London or Israel listening to the news. Only after you spend some time seeing another view of something you thought you knew will you really question the overall bias held by the media.
We don't like it, we just don't know it. But you're right. Congrats on your insight.
2006-08-20 23:26:18 · answer #3 · answered by Ketel One Up 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
funny i view the media as an onset of jumbeled babaling half baked truth of what they want us to delieve and eat with out givin us the entire fact and with their opinion and spin on it instead of the direct facts with out any bias to it. u gotta be better than that n know how to read a bull shiater
2006-08-19 21:04:58 · answer #4 · answered by devil_queen_biatch14 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been on the planet long enough, and caught them in enough lies that it is really hard for them to fool me. Plus, I don't really use them much. If something is important, it will be on the Web where there are different viewpoints expressed.
2006-08-19 21:04:26 · answer #5 · answered by retiredslashescaped1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No-one brainwashes me.
I am not a number, I am a person.
2006-08-19 21:03:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they know exactly how long my attention span is. Well... with the exception of sports news, they completely overshot the mark there.
2006-08-19 21:05:50 · answer #7 · answered by February Rain 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Media is made up of people like us.
2006-08-19 21:02:42 · answer #8 · answered by curious 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get.
2006-08-19 21:15:40 · answer #9 · answered by mom2kats 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it take so much engergy and money to find a cult to do it for me. Tv is right here..and its free(sort of).
2006-08-19 21:08:01 · answer #10 · answered by SegaGenocide 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋