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Too bad about Opie...
Media is anything that is not word of mouth as far as I'm concerned. Books, TV, radio, internet; all of them are media. The media in mainstream tv seems to be biased at times. I'm assuming we are talking about tv and magazines here.
Books: Books are permament. You buy it, and you can read it over and over again, each time finding new truths to it. That is great, but books are just as likely to be biased as any other media. A lot of people forget that. You go out and buy a book by Pat Robertson, for example. He is a brilliant man, and has some good ideas about things, but you have to remember that he is human, too. He has his opinion about things, and those opinions are put in his books.
Tv: we have all of these news networks that just sprung up over the last maybe 6 or 7 years. They run news 24 hours a day, and are owned by father companies. These father companies are already experienced in media, and can have agendas. What worries me, though, is how a lot of people take everything thaty's said on TV as gospel truth. I know that you can get a lot of information through media, but a lot of it has a spin. We have to be able to discern what truth is out of our own personal experiences.
Radio: most people just listen to radio for music, but I've found it's a great place to find grass roots progamming. Why would anyone want to listen to grass roots? Basically, because they are not run by a corporation. Things like NPR and Free Speech Radio are strong advocates of free speech and honestly try to tell us what might have been left out by CNN or the Washington Post.
Internet: this is the single greatest source of information in history thus far. It is a tool for people to circumvent normal rules of information sharing. It is full of bias from end to end, and everything inbetween.
Just trying to get the post back on track.
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