From: Alan Dayley <
alandd@consultpros.com>
> 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.
/if you took any of this seriously... don't.
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