People are so quick to jump down the throats of reporters. Hey, get this:
They were just doing their jobs.
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Originally Posted by crow_daw
What can I say? The media is the media, they never cease to amaze, but what's really sad is that I've heard that the media could become the primary factor in shaping children's sociopolitical beliefs within fifteen or twenty years, eclipsing even their parents.
God help us all.
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You know, the media can only exist if you consume it(and I'm not singling you out, crow_daw, just your quote illustrates this). It's paid for by advertisers who are fed the viewing/readership figures of the networks.
Just think about how the chain, the cycle, works. If people would stop rampantly buying shit, stop giving their money to the corporations that are paying for this shit in the first place, just for once get off their asses and do something other than consume every media fad that comes along (I'm looking at you, must-watch hyped to the gills bite-size premiering-this-week don't-miss-it everyone's-talking-about-it TV drama), every hour of glaze-eyed TV joy they can get, then maybe these rolling news channels wouldn't have the draw for monolithic companies' advertisements and therefore, wouldn't have the resources and power - or indeed, the need - to report so competitively and so quickly, and thus to get it wrong so often.
Is that worth thinking about? Maybe we're the ones fucking
ourselves? Am I off-base?
It just gets my goat when all the news media are doing is feeding our need - our desire - to be salaciously and voyeuristically entertained, then we round on them, just for doing what's asked of them. We need to make our minds up about how our world ought to work, I think.
Never mind, what's on TV?