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"Xocyll" <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote
> Er no. That's a symptom.
This could be a fascinating conversation. Too bad it's OT for the NG and
the post... Sooner or later somoene Usenet disciplinarian is gonna start
screaming...
> U.S. Citizens are isolated and ignorant of world events because they
> don't care that the news media doesn't cover it.
>
> If they cared, they'd demand it, and the media would do it or lose
> viewers/readers/listeners.
>
> Worse still they believe that the media ARE covering everything
> important and are unbiased.
I agree with you completely, except that you must see there's some small
contradiction between the first two paragraphs and the third. If they
believe they are receiving everything in a fair and unbalanced manner, then
why would they ever demand better?
The point is well made though. I tend to concentrate on the corporate
sponsorship because it is part of this. They have dropped all journalistic
responsibility and integrity and spread out a platter of biased, uncritical,
pre-packaged brain-goo and called it news. In response, too many Americans
have gobbled up this garbage, and truly belive that it is caviar. The
responsibility lies with the corporate ownership, those people that used to
be journalists and are now going along with this junk, and the people that
don't do enough work to realize they are being lied to.
> Before anyone starts pointing fingers that i'm not an American and don't
> have the right to say this, i'll just note that I have an uncle in
> California who actually believes FOX News is totally unbiased, and that
> it's the only one that is.
I have a brother like that. Believe me, we stay away from political
conversations. As long as we do so, we get along fine, because aside from
his Limbaugh/Fox News brain damage, he's not a bad guy.
And while I know it's easier for a citizen to criticize his own country, I
have no problem with intelligent people from other countries doing so. As
long as it's done right... Besides, these days, far too often, we are
wrong. There ARE wrongs and rights in some politics, it's not all like
religeon where YOU believe what YOU want, and *I'll* believe what *I*
want... Some things are just plain wrong, and we've done a lot of them
lately.
> The information is there for anyone who wants to see it.
>
> Most Americans don't care enough to bother.
Most Americans have come down with a bad case of "I want to believe X, so
I'll just accept whatever supports and blame everything else on 'the liberal
media'"
The information is NOT quite as available as you think though. As a
for-instance... I knew about the Valerie Plame story for a good SIX MONTHS
before the media ever covered it in any way shape or form. If it wasn't for
the Internet, I doubt anyone would ever have known that someone in the White
House committed treason as an act of political vengance.
You're right, the information is there, but anything that requires regular
digging is going to go unnoticed.
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