Yes, I think it qualifies as propaganda. News agencies on both sides of the aisle take the facts and then spin them to fit their agenda. Or, especially in the case of the mainstream liberal media, they deliberately don't report certain stories because there's no way they can spin those stories to fit their agenda and airing them would be detrimental to their agenda. EXAMPLE: Two years ago, in Louisiana, a 13-year-old boy was found strangled to death. Investigation revealed that the boy had been held captive by two homosexual men who had sodomized him daily and had forced him to perform oral sex on them. The boy was strangled because he was struggling while he was being sodomized by one of the men. Was this story aired on CNN, CBS, NBC, or ABC? No. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out why not.
2007-07-17 04:20:05
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answered by Anonymous
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There is an old saying:
Trust half of what you see, none of what you read (or, hear).
During my journalism school days, my professor was honest and wise enough to tell us that no news is unbiased and everyone has some kind of an agenda.
The instant a reporter or producer types the very first letter on their keyboard, they have already decided how the story will slant.
All journalists do it, because we all bring in our own experiences, views and biases.
That is inherently human.
Until the day a news machine is spitting out pure truths and facts, we'll always be subjected to the views of the journalist - no matter how subtle or overt.
2007-07-17 17:14:23
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answered by docscholl 6
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The once-prestigious "Fourth Estate" has fallen from grace. No longer the watchdog over government malfeasance, today's "media" is a co-conspirator in the proliferation of government propaganda.
It used to be that journalism was a proud and honored profession where reporters, columnists, editors and publishers provided their readers (or listeners, or viewers) with balanced information, in-depth investigation, total accuracy, complete credibility and objective discourse.
Today, the conservative-biased media finds it less tedious and much more profitable simply to "read" the government press release, verbatim, without an iota of skepticism, without questioning the government's motives, and without bothering to invest in any concentrated investigation of its own.
Today, the "media" is not the honorable entity it was fifty years ago, protecting citizens from government lies and providing voters with fair and balanced data. Today, 'news' is something to fill the 22 minutes of space between eight minutes of commercials, something to fill in space on a page that wasn't sold to advertisers.
Close examination will reveal all three network evening news programs, for example, almost daily lead with the same stories, use the same film feeds, and buy the same pre-packaged 'interviews'. Much of their 'news' has become self-promotions for hour-long broadcasts to be televised later that evening on that network.
An "in-depth" report will last - maybe - two minutes, and offer no real insight into anything. News divisions of the top networks have been relegated to 'profit centers' where costs are cut and shortcuts are implemented just so that the programs can continue to produce more advertising revenue.
So viewers get short-changed; news get glossed-over; and facts get distorted, avoided or undisclosed. Watch CNN or Headlines News or Fox "News" for more than a half-hour, and you'll see the very same stories repeated over and over again, as if those are the only half-dozen events going on in the world today.
Like Hitler's propagandists did in World War II, our government now controls the 'media' at its discretion. It's a sad time for the honorable 'Fourth Estate'. -RKO- 07/17/07
2007-07-17 12:04:33
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answered by -RKO- 7
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I think it's bascially the truth, but has a "spin" on it, depending on the locale- say Los Angeles or NY may be more liberal than Any Town, Iowa. They have no reason to try to brainwash us since there are so many sources of info available- newspapers, the internet, hey even Yahoo answers! If they tried to manipulate too much they would lose credibility and ratings (and profits) would fall.
2007-07-17 11:18:51
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answered by GEEGEE 7
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A lot of it is. If you will notice , they all report the same things. Unfortunately its being used to manipulate others. The liberals have a field day under reporting the the ills of the left and over reporting the ills of the right. The bible says that manipulation is as the sin of witch craft.
2007-07-17 12:59:21
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answered by ? 7
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U.S. news is a business. They make money. Sometimes the way they make money is to play up the sensational, sometimes by repeating the government line because it is a lot cheaper than digging for the truth, and sometimes by catering to a particular political group for viewership.
2007-07-17 11:20:23
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answered by Diminati 5
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Most news on TV and in newspapers are nothing more than gimmicks to have you see advertisements to sell products and services. Nothing more. "The News" is what the big corporations want you to know.
2007-07-17 11:17:29
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answered by F T 5
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News it not Propaganda its the way well tell what news that we want to thats the propaganda part about it.
2007-07-17 16:12:30
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answered by Anonymous
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How can you not have ANY feelings about a question that your asking? Just kind of seems ironic. Thats all.
2007-07-17 11:38:16
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answered by jleah22 2
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not all of them only %99
2007-07-19 22:37:06
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answered by stop canada. 1
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