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4.07.2003
We Need Non-Profit News More Than EverFor Broadcast Media, Patriotism Pays (washingtonpost.com) "Get the following production pieces in the studio NOW: . . . Patriotic music that makes you cry, salute, get cold chills! Go for the emotion," advised McVay Media, a Cleveland-based consultant, in a "War Manual" memo to its station clients. ". . . Air the National Anthem at a specified time each day as long as the USA is at war." When you make profit the motivation for your news coverage you will end up with a media that always puts more thought into echoing what the public wants rather than what needs to be said. So much for the guardian press. In music if you put a microphone too close to an amplifier it creates a horrendous feedback loop, a loud squelching noise that will hurt your head. This is what happens when the press reinforces the mass mentality. The authority figures in government set the mood and the papers cheer it on because its what the people wan't. Never mind if its a lie. The only people that are gonna say anything are going to be people that suffer as a result of the authority's assertions. In this case a genuine cause for dissent, in my opinion will get drowned out not for its merits but rather for its negative affects on ad revenue? This is chilling. | |
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