On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 23:36 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> 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.
----
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
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