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Miranda · 04-23-2003, 08:21 PM

I tip my hat to Michael Moore. That took guts. Although you can question countless elements of every broadcast, the point is; he took a chance and said what many people have wanted to say. He got it out there.
With trusting the media - there's so many issues it's not black and white (like everything of course).
I'm in Australia so it was slightly different. I have cable so we got fox news and heaps of people here - alot of whom work in the media industry - are calling it the "Propaganda Channel". What do you think? I was kind of shocked when they stopped broadcasting about the war!
But with newspapers - I get the Herald every day - I remember one day in the middle of the conflict turning to the 2nd page and every single article was exactly the same! Literally! In some they cut and pasted exact same phrases into other ones! Different headlines! It was ridiculous!
The media is always a source to question. A friend of mine who works for SBS here in Australia said that they had to edit hours and hours of footage unsuitable for broadcast. Makes me wonder what we didn't see...
Reuters isn't too bad a source, same with BBC and CNN. The Australian free-to-air channels link from Fox/BBC/CNN so can't really say much about them.
Ah well - what kind of choice do we have but to take what we can get from the very limited sources (as in views) we have?

04-23-2003, 08:21 PM	#30 (permalink)
Miranda Banned Location: Sydney	I tip my hat to Michael Moore. That took guts. Although you can question countless elements of every broadcast, the point is; he took a chance and said what many people have wanted to say. He got it out there. With trusting the media - there's so many issues it's not black and white (like everything of course). I'm in Australia so it was slightly different. I have cable so we got fox news and heaps of people here - alot of whom work in the media industry - are calling it the "Propaganda Channel". What do you think? I was kind of shocked when they stopped broadcasting about the war! But with newspapers - I get the Herald every day - I remember one day in the middle of the conflict turning to the 2nd page and every single article was exactly the same! Literally! In some they cut and pasted exact same phrases into other ones! Different headlines! It was ridiculous! The media is always a source to question. A friend of mine who works for SBS here in Australia said that they had to edit hours and hours of footage unsuitable for broadcast. Makes me wonder what we didn't see... Reuters isn't too bad a source, same with BBC and CNN. The Australian free-to-air channels link from Fox/BBC/CNN so can't really say much about them. Ah well - what kind of choice do we have but to take what we can get from the very limited sources (as in views) we have? Last edited by Miranda; 04-24-2003 at 01:33 AM..