On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 23:36 -0700, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Alan Dayley > > Craig White wrote: > >> You can count on local news to completely botch the story - CNN too. > > I don't like to watch the news. Nearly any story on any topic that I > > have some knowledge about, they get wrong somehow. So, if that happens > > every time with things I have knowledge of, how can I trust them for > > things for which I don't have corroboration? > > Aye. The purpose of TV is not to inform or entertain, it is to deliver > your eyeballs to advertisers. The programs are not the product, *you* > are the product, and your attention is being sold to people at $25K for > 30 seconds. Newspapers are similar, but there's less money in paper, > so they've cut copy editing to icanhascheezburger.com levels and replaced > fact-checking with trying to make sure they won't be sued. Note that > it's *difficult* to convey The Truth to Joe Sixpack. As such, it's no > wonder that the mission of the media has changed from "Deliver the truth" > to "Deliver what sells". Some say that this has always been the media's > mission. > > So, with all traditional media channels suspect, I have to get all my > news from only reliable sources: The Internet and small children. > This has led me to believe that the only hope for the nation is to > elect representatives from the Monster Raving Loony Party in 2008. ---- 5 days after Washington Post published the story, the Arizona Republic finally figured out that there was a story here... http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0102music0103ON.html Of course, they are still trying to figure out what the story actually is...fear not, they missed it completely. Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss