The Media = The Bible ?.

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[flea]

I like to read trashy tabloid newspapers, they talk so much bs its impossible not to question them

Its important to question your own veiws and knowledge, and the source of them, becuase most (or all?) souces have their own adgenda, wether they intend to be biased or not.

[Szech]

I don't like the news anymore, frankly, because I do not believe it an accurate media.

When I was 15, in high school, a student was killed during fourth period on school grounds. In came the media circus. Everyone they interviewed felt that it was terrible. But before it aired, things were edited, words taken out of context, and people were made to sound as though he should have expected it. By the next day, everyone told the cameras to @#$% off.

I watch the news occasionally, but I watch it with an attitude of question. The news is not unbiased, and it is not necessarily accurate.

I have heard people base opinions on the news, and it does annoy me. But it is not worth my energy to agitate myself.

[flea]

You just reminded me...............

I dont know if this was in the news in the US but a few years back a guy wnet into a primary school into a town near where ilive and started shooting kids, the dunblane massacre.

The media loved it, and in the end we ended up with a ban on handguns. He had a handgun, but he killed the kids with a shotgun. Did the media care about that? Noooo. A guy done the same with a knife in a school as well. But oooh noooooooooo guns are bad and guns caused this, if he didnt have a handgun this never would have happened! Shock! Horror! Increased sales of the Daily Mail!

Newspapers have the power to make and brake people, disregardless of the facts. Any body read Airframe by michael crichton?

http://www.fair.org

[Warthog]

Yeah I read about that flea. Pretty sad

I don't trust the media whatsoever. They screw up time after time, after all what is their ultimate goal? Profits. Gaining profits does not necessarily mean telling the complete, un-biased truth.

Warthog

[Spanky]

People are WAY to trusting of anything they read, Sometimes I admit that it happens to me too. Then a friend of mine has to correct me.

Of course he doesn't belive in anything.

NOTHING AT ALL.

As far as he is conserned everything could just be his mind screwing with him.

Gravity? Is it real? Prove it he says. LOL

Course its pretty much impossible to prove it to him. LOL

Ya gotta know where he is coming from of course. We had a huge debate over it one night.

Really he is just really untrusting of anything and everybody.

Obviously he isn't religious. As soon as he sees god MAYBE he will belive in him, course god would have to prove he was real somehow.



Oh yeah, Yep I have read airframe, I think I should read it again cause I'm forgeting most of it now.

Right now I'm reading The Andromeda Strain.

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[Mortis]

Greetings. My 2 cents- the news and media are all about sensationalism! Almost to the point that the original story is obscured or misrepresented. I discount or engage critically anything that appears fallatious or incorporates the use of falacies.

My favorite is when people are talking about something and use, "well, they say that..." I always ask, "who are they." Most of the time, the speaker can not answer.

Mortis