The Media
There is an obvious backlash, especially here in the USA against the Media as it now seems to be portrayed as out of touch or completely driven by ratings with no substance left.
What do you think can be done to combat this? (If you agree with the above statement, that is)
Has it always been this way? If not, what caused the shift?
What do you personally still trust the Media to do?
Take care all.
The media is completely driven by the ratings. It really isn't the fault of those reporting so much as it is a corporate problem. A LOT more from me later. I really don't like the media. They have become a huge problem and only make things worse. Scare tactics to control everyone.
Falling on step with that, a great problem would be that just about all the media in this country is controlled by 5 companies, so we aren't getting as wide a perspective on the news and the world as we could or should be.
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I don't know if it has always been this way, but it most certainly is now.
Maybe I am just a pessimist, but I don't think that there is a single, solitary thing anyone can do to combat it. Alternative media sources are nice, but most of them are biased as hell.
Well, one step we COULD take is to get rid of FOX news all together. That could make a tremendous difference in the media. We would still be left with trash, but the worst of the worst would be gone, and that is a step in the right direction.
Frankly, I'm more apt to trust the crap that comes up for internet news than I am to trust TV news. Wich isn't saying a hell of a lot, actually.
What can be done is to report way, way less of the news. In my area the local news comes on at 4:30 and stays on until 7. When I was a kid it came on at 6 and stayed on for an hour. That's completely ridiculous. 90% of what they say before 5:00 is "Stay tuned, we'll tell you about this after 6:00!"
There shouldn't be stations that show the news 24 hours a day unless they repeat the same thing every 10 minutes like the Weather Channel does. We don't need to know this much crap. They scrape the bottom of the bucket for news stories, and they try to stretch what they get as far as they can stretch it.
They should stop reporting about celebrities. If an organization wants to be respected as a news source, then separate entertainment from news. I don't want to hear about Michael Jackson's breakfast right after Supreme Court decisions.
I agree with you.The professor's at MIT laughed at me and my report of how Fox News is brain washing people.Originally Posted by nik0tine
I'm starting the pretty much distrust the media andpolticians all together. Heck the Daily Show is a more reliable source for news than CBS.Now thats just said due to the fact that its fake news.
I grealy dislike the media in general and I especially hate the paparazzi.
My mother is a bank clerk and was involved in a robbery. A large heavy rock was thrown threw the bank managers window landing on the desk where she was sitting (she was supervising for the manager) snapping the desk like a twig. She had a gun pointed to her head as bullets spilled on the floor and she was yelled at to open a safe containing 300,000 euro while the rest of the staff was backed into a corner and threatened with a loaded gun. She opened the safe and as they took out the money she laid her back gainst another safe built into the wall containing far, far more than what was in the open safe. They took there money and forced the staff into the safe locking them inside.
The newspaper the next day read Lismore bank of Ireland was robbed at 4.50 yesterday evening. The hooded men forced there way in making of with more than 10,000,000 euro. One bank staff refused and was attacked having his jaw broken. Many were injured but non were killed. The criminals have yet to be found
Ive gone off topic but I find that really sickening and just about any newspaper is full of this bull.
The media isn't right a lot, but I dislike when people blame all their problems on the media.
I definitely agree with this.
"Media" is such a broad term, it's hard for me to answer this question. I'm guessing we're talking mostly about news here. I don't think News is driven entirely by ratings. Sensationalism sells, sure, and I know that virtually every news source has some sort of bias, but I don't think the media is driven soley by ratings and money.
I still trust the Media to seek the truth and report it. There are still news sources out that that I trust to be objective. CNN, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times are a few.
Getting rid of Fox News would be silly. Fox is just presenting the news as they see it, with a huge right wing slant, just like the LA Times reports news with a heavy left wing slant.
I disagree that we're not getting enough perspective from the Media. With the Internet, people can be exposed to thousands of different perspectives that wasn't possible before with newspapers or Television.
The media always reflects society. The Media never says anything that people in the general public aren't thinking themselves. That being said, maybe people in the general public are idiots who are greedy for money. Just like people in the Media.
Also, Clear Channel is evil.
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If you really want to get away from the media drivel, read a newspaper. That way, you can select the things you want to view. Newspapers are good. Broadcasting, while a much quicker news source, is annoying as all get out.
Honestly, I don't understand how people can complain about the media as much as they do. Take in what you want to take in, and then turn the TV off. It's that simple.
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Newspapers exist to sell themselves. TV news exists to gain expensive advertising campaigns by getting high ratings. Internet news for getting expensive banner ads by getting more hits. It's all driven for money. This drive is so commonplace and far-reaching that it's made it's way into popculture. I mean, it's even in a Harry Potter book.
"Hermione: You mean the Daily Prophet isn't interested in reporting the truth?
"Skeeter: You silly girl. The Daily Prophet exists to sell itself."
I rather doubt that the government, at least in this country, leans on the news media and influences it about what it reports. However, the media will portray what people will pay to see, which in turn increases the number of people buying what's advertised. It's a repeating cycle that interestingly enough varies and changes. Leads me to ask, what motivates the change?
I trust no news anymore. don't read the paper, don't watch TV, rarely check on the internet. CBS, one of the largest and most trusted news sources made up a bunch of stuff anyways and was taken to court for it. I'm shocked that people still watch the rubbish.
Makoto, Honesty.
This fits in rather well with this topic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/po...er=rssuserland
Take care all.
On to my hate for the media.
They make mountains out of mole hills.
They decieve the masses and take advantage of their ignorace when it is them who should be informing the masses.
They don't care about information. It is all about the bottom line and ratings.
They only help to make our world a worse place to live now. They put celebes on a high up alter to be looked up to. They make shootings and violence an everyday thing instead of just a fantasy thing. People try to immitate all of this and it makes for a lot more violence and broken dreams. Very few will ever obtain that stuff and will still try to live up to it and get into massive debt. The others will don't think violence is all that bad and have no qualms about joining gangs and other things.
A 24 hour new channel is not a bad idea and it use to be nice to turn on the TV whenever you want and get the news on your time. But it isn't nice anymore since it is all opinions about how liberal = evil or how conservatives = evil. I don't give! Inform me and I will make my own decisions.
Thats another thing. They always just give out opinions now instead of information to let the viewer decide. CNN use to be like before mergers. Now it is all terrible and just as bad as Fox news.
They should not be trusted about anything important. It should be looked into and researched before you believe them. It is easy to tell what to research and what not to research. The school shooting things should be researched because they try to make it seem like an epidemic when it is far from it. Things like the Terry Schavio thing don't really need to be researched all that much because it is pretty straight forward. There are things you can still find such as GW Bush signed a law in texas to remove the life support off of people who can't pay for it. How opposite of what the Republicans are doing right now.
I could keep going but I think I made my point about how they are quite possible the worst organization out there right now.
I agree with most of what's been said.
The media is the ultimate lie, created by the masses to control the masses. Everything we base our opinions on--everything about the way we view life, the things we like to do, the way we talk, our inhibitions, our beliefs, our religions, our plans for the future, the way we think we SHOULD be, the clothes we wear and the way we fix our hair--everything is dictated by the media. It's a psychological cage. Who would I be today if I hadn't had the media telling me who I should strive to be, everywhere I turned, for the last 17 years?
Even if you want to ignore it, you can't, or you might face excommunication from society. As much as come people may say they don't mind that, I think they do. At least a little.
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