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2.07.2003
An elected representative government reflects the public opinion. The public opinion is in a large part formed by the information that people are given. Therefore the greatest crime that mass media can commit is the selective withholding of information. I dont think the media are trying to shape the public perception on an individual and intentional basis (except for obvious right wing propaganda networks and radio). For at least the large national media I belive that David Shaw has the right of it. I switched on the local news coverage of the Powell Speech and watched with great interest. I was very excited to see what I thought would be a discusion of this evidence. Instead, the minute after the speech was over EVERY SINGLE STATION switched over to their talking head who was mumbling on about how we just watched Colin Powell.... blah blah blah. Then they trotted out some commentator to tell us what they thought of the speech, all this while the whole process was still underway! They were so anxious to be the first ones to get their faces on the screen that they all switched over practically before the last words were out of Powell's mouth. After the obligatory talking heads yammering they switched back... to JENNY JONES!!!! hurrah for the media! Instead of airing the comments from the rest of the world including a rebuttal of Powell by the ambassador from Iraq they went back to their horrendous daytime programming. So instead we were offered Sargent Moses yelling at a 12 yr old kid to get him to stop cussing at his momma. great. I switched back to listening to NPR, without which I would be just another ignorant american. You have your choices in this society, you either hunt through the internet for the informtion you need or you turn to somethign like NPR, where you get actual coverage of events. I also have to give credit to C-Span as well. I don't have cable here but I do see C-Span occasionally and I am always impressed. The network news channels are a disgrace to our democratic society. They should be laughed off the screens. We should demand a return of the airwaves that they have been making billions of off for years and not even having the decency to air remarks about a looming war! | |
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