[CLUE-Talk] Political compass

[Jeff Cann]

On Thursday 06 November 2003 4:58 pm, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> "The WB" last night and noticed that the lead "news" story being
> promoted all night was the opening of "Matrix: Revolutions" 
...
> I think a lot of people are troubled by this sort of thing, 

I don't think enough people are troubled by this sort of thing and that's what 
troubles me more.  If they a lot of people were troubled by it, they would 
stop watching such 'news' casts.  

Unfortunately,  (IMHO) the majority of Americans prefer entertainment/news 
casts, rather than just straight news.  'News' tends to be unsexy and boring.  
But, some clever producers over the past 15-20 years figured out how to 
sensationalize it and guess what?  -- even the local TV (lame) newscasts are 
constantly fear mongering and sensationalizing their 'news' stories about 
West Nile or 'whatever you should be scared about, tonight at 10'...

Let me suggest two books for an interesting take on the media.

"Inventing Reality" by Michael Parenti (1993)
 + http://www.michaelparenti.org/InventingReality.html

"Culture of Fear"  by Barry Glasner (2000)
 + http://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?isbn=0465014909

Jeff
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