[CLUE-Talk] Political compass

[Randy Arabie]

Quoting Jeff Cann <j.cann at isuma.org>:

> 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'...

It's even spread beyond news.  Just look at the award winning "documentary" 
Bowling for Columbine, talk about sensationalization.

I thought documentaries were supposed to be based on fact...
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Randy
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