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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
I completely understand your point of view but I believe the only outcome of it would be that people would only become more enured and unaffected by images of death and less reflective about the concepts of war and execution. Anything shown often enough on television becomes something no longer of reality. It removes the watcher from real experience. Or maybe I'm just no longer convinced of mankind's innate tendency to move away from barbarism.
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I think a large problem is the psychological influence of the way news is presented to us. Newcasters are taught to try to remain mostly "neutral"
They can talk about baby cannibalism for all it matters to them, and they still do it with this absurd "it's just the news" tone of voice.
If anything desensitizes people, its that. I mean you grow up listening to these people and hell, if they are so calm, everything must be ok, right?
So after listening to these people talk about war, about terrorist attacks, about economic issues, about things which are supposed to test our very moral beliefs of life and death, day in , day out, year after year, "it's just the news". I mean, you start off well enough, you might actually care about the news, but you know, one day you might just be a little withdrawn, "well theres nothing I could have done about that" and it's all downhill, apathy sets in.
THAT is what pisses me off, and it'll never change because no station will get a real personality presenting the news.
Likewise, they really can't either since it would imply that because thier newscasters feel or think a certain way, it's being imposed upon thier viewers.
meh. Ok, i'm done ranting. I'll shush now.