The Media

[Darkfire]

I hate the media. They're always making everything twist to their ways. They're just too intrusive into our lives. For just ONE day, I'd like the news to be about something other than death and violence. Of course, there are those stories on local news about this person winning this, and there's sports, but a gross majority of the media just tells us how amazingly violent our world is. Of course that is true that the world is a violent place, but for everything one bad thing they show on the news, there's ten good things they don't show. That just pisses me off that that's all they tell you about is blood and gore and politics.

[Jesika Starwatcher]

Bad news is more interesting than good news.

I mean, I'm willing to bet that you sat there and watched the television religiously on 9/11/01, right? Because, as sad and tragic and awful as it was, it was still interesting.

[Metal Fox]

Good news are rash and have no purpose of cousel for most of the fucking people, Media is business, business is money, now I beseech, stop whining!!

[Nausicaä]

The media also insists that stuff like the Michael Jackson case is news. I care not for it and I wish it would go away. Who gives a rat's ass on this whole thing, aside from the people actually involved?

[The_Terminator]

Good news is boring. Hearing someone win the lottery or something along those lines just pisses people off because someone else is happy when they're not. When you have bad things happen to people, and you see them, you feel better about yourself because things could be bad, but at least you aren't the mother of six who was stabbed to death in a stairway. Sure it's bad to see stuff like that happen, but if a news company doesn't put that stuff on, they don't have a show, their ratings go down, and so on. The media is a business like everything else and in the event you didn't notice, violence and sex sells.

[Metal Fox]

Good news is boring. Hearing someone win the lottery or something along those lines just pisses people off because someone else is happy when they're not.

The media is a business like everything else and in the event you didn't notice, violence and sex sells.

EXACALAPALALTLY

[Vixen]

The media is a business like everything else and in the event you didn't notice, violence and sex sells.
You got a point there. Like those crappy Burger King commercials where it's just a bunch of women running around in skimpy outfits eating burgers. It has nothing to do with the product the company is selling. That's probably the worst thing about the media today. It has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the product.

[The_Terminator]

You got a point there. Like those crappy Burger King commercials where it's just a bunch of women running around in skimpy outfits eating burgers. It has nothing to do with the product the company is selling. That's probably the worst thing about the media today. It has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the product.

Ah yeah. That's exactly the way I pictured the future of Hootie and the Blowfish: Darius Rucker doing commercials for chicken sandwhiches while the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders dance behind him. But in any case, you are also correct. Just look at TV advertised drugs. They never show what their used for, they just say, "Take this and feel better!". My little sister thinks Enzyte is a steriod to help with your golf game. :p

[Zicka]

I hate the media. They're always making everything twist to their ways. They're just too intrusive into our lives. For just ONE day, I'd like the news to be about something other than death and violence. Of course, there are those stories on local news about this person winning this, and there's sports, but a gross majority of the media just tells us how amazingly violent our world is. Of course that is true that the world is a violent place, but for everything one bad thing they show on the news, there's ten good things they don't show. That just pisses me off that that's all they tell you about is blood and gore and politics.

You just figured this out now?

[amtrack88]

Stop watching the local news. They often make the news than report on it.

Death, sex scandals, Michael Jackson, etc. make up a large portion of the media.

[Dozer]

For just ONE day, I'd like the news to be about something other than death and violence.

Move to Canada, the news is fucking boring up here.

[Juju]

Fun, I tend to think the contrary. Why in the hell does the media spend so much time telling us about little Ricky, saved from drowning by his dog, when they could say some stuff about how, say, we're involved in a peace-keeping mission in Congo for UN, that there have been sex scandals, that a reliatiation mission after 9 peace-keepers have been killed caused 50 deathes, of people most likely not fighting (though some part of rebel forces), including women and children ("but they were fighting with the rebels!", they said).
Since not only it's important, but we're involved and people being slightly aware of this could actually change something.

Even when they occasionally show some people dying in Africa, they always make it look like it's a natural disaster or something. But no. Africa actually has ressource. Most wars, starvation, are political things with western world occasionally involved (for good or bad).

But well. It's a bit easy to blame the media. We've got the media we deserve, sadly. People dying and responsibilities bore people.

~:rolleyes:

[Vandal]

I agree that the media has gotten out of control, but why doesn't anyone do anything about it?

The media, in a way, keeps things in check, like the government (borrowing ideas from Jello Biafra here). People need to become the media, inform others of real news, things that matter and have effects on our lives.

You know one reason why people protested the Vietnam War? Seeing soldiers getting blown on live TV feeds of the battlefield. Guess what... there is a policy that forbids the broadcast of the caskets of US soldiers from this current "Middle-East Resolution". The less the people know and see, the less they complain. We need media, one that shows people the true issues and problems.

[Jesika Starwatcher]

I am sad that the genocide in Sudan is less newsworthy than the Michael Jackson story.

And in response to the comment about the coffins, I found this cartoon fitting.

http://www.cagle.com/news/Iraq-Coffins/Iraq-%20coffins/mccloskey.jpg

That is something that particularly angers me about this whole mess. War sucks, face it. Sure, sometimes it's necessary, but we should not become complacent with its ultimate costs. And flag draped coffins is a much more powerful symbol than most anything else.

It forces you to realize that they're not toys or just numbers or names. They're people and whether you agree or disagree with the war, you can't deny its costs.

[dag yo g]

People need to become the media, inform others of real news, things that matter and have effects on our lives.

Dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. Ever play telephone as a child?

Did you know that over half of Bush voters last election didn't know what positions he actually took on the issues? That was WITH the media. Imagine how bad it'd be without anytype of input what so ever? You think this lazy fuck generation of Americans will get energized and figure everything out themselves? NO! They don't even bother to read full newspaper articles, otherwise they'd AT LEAST KNOW WHAT THE CANDIDATE THEIR SUPPORTING STANDS FOR. Oi!

[Vandal]

Dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. Ever play telephone as a child?

Did you know that over half of Bush voters last election didn't know what positions he actually took on the issues? That was WITH the media. Imagine how bad it'd be without anytype of input what so ever? You think this lazy fuck generation of Americans will get energized and figure everything out themselves? NO! They don't even bother to read full newspaper articles, otherwise they'd AT LEAST KNOW WHAT THE CANDIDATE THIR SUPPORTING STANDS FOR. Oi!


This is exactly my point. When people become the media, by themselves, they can prevent administrations like the current one, unless they like it of course.
But, if you've got a better idea, i'm all ears!

[dag yo g]

It's obvious we can't trust people to think for themselves, because they DON'T. It'd be great to have a news article generating machine (READ: Impossibly impartial). Sadly, this is nearly as ridiculous as your suggestion (but guarenteed to work, unlike yours).

[ABigFox]

The media is just a puppet of politicians, basically they favor whomever will do them favors such as giving their reporters the first question at important press conferences, and letting their network know first. No matter what news networks will always be biased it is inevitable, it cannot be changed, it is all part of the game of politics, although this part of the game rarely comes to light. ABF