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I believe it's an incesteous relationship where they try to keep the
eyeballs focused on the tube 24/7 for more ad revenue.

And with the consolidation of the media organs into giant monopolies like
the TW gobbling and the Rupert Murdock feeding frenzy, we'll see less and
less of objective reporting and more tie-ins and political agendas advanced.

For example, one thing you won't see in newspapers is negative reports about
housing, real estate, automobiles or furniture.
Because that's where most of their ad revenue comes from.

Kids need to be taught in school how not to pay any attention to ads and how
to discriminate amongst the tons of media crap out there and delve into the
real truth.

mapi

"Craig Becker" <jlpicard@serv1.jump.net> wrote in message
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> In austin.general mapanari <mapanari@earthlink.nut> wrote:
> > You might want to know, that hysterical bad reporting that came out a
couple
> > of weeks ago about the "facts" about day care and aggresive children has
> > been generally discredited in intelligent circles, which means the news
> > media has moved on and can't be bothered fixing the headlines or
reporting
> > any truth that won't pander to the lowest common denominator.
>
> I'm not especially surprised -- the media tends to jump on
> any kind of "cute" correlative study and promote the hell
> out of it, with little if any concern for validity, or caveats
> on how seriously the 'results' can be taken.
>
> *sigh* the media in general -- I don't know how most of these
> "journalists" get to sleep at night. It just kills me how often
> the local news will do these "tie-in" stories keyed off of a
> teevee show that aired in the previous timeslot -- the other
> night, during _The Practice_, the news commercials were hawking
> a special report about "Austin's real-life rape crisis counselor".
>
> Actually, that's one of the more innocuous examples -- what really
> gets me is when, oh, there's a movie like _Twister_ coming out,
> and (oddly enough) the local news all had "special reports" on
> tornadoes and severe weather. Do ya think there was some money
> changing hands here???
>
> Methinks that the big news story we'll _never_ see is just how
> close-knit the entire media/entertainment industry is.
>

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