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Its just in the news that those poor people are trapped in that mine in Pennsylvania. I understand the shock and horror that must have caused to fellow family members and friends when that first leaked out. But here America is with computer generated diagrams that actually move around pointing and showing how the workers are going to get them out. Thats not so bad. But i just saw a 'time line' of what happened like at 1:00 pm: workers are getting ready to dig at 4:00 pm: workers have begun finalizing plans to dig at 8:00 pm: workers start digging at 9:00 pm: workers take a break I mean come on! lets not forget to include: MINE DISASTER 2002! in big huge flourescent green letters. im sorry America...but really...lets calm down on all this. its devestating new for sure...and my condolences go out...but when you hover over something like this for hours on end with computer graphics and time lines and unnecessary interviews with 1000 journalists just talking to one police officer...you gotta say..hey guys...calm down. I think its just weird...you know. |
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yeah the media here is way to overzealous, its fuckin gay. I completely agree with you. |
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I was just thinking to myself on what real journalism is to me...which is people that go out and get the news and put it down with their English skillz. Back 50 years they didn't need all this fancy stuff...news was hardcore! Now i would even call what these guys do on CNN journalism. its like Flash Journalism. Darn it. |
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yeah, it sucks. |
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bummer...im surprised more arn't posting. here i come up with a serious topic... i guess no one cares about journalism. |
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i think the board is just kinda slow... good topic, btw |
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if you could only understand the frustration many aviation enthusists like myself feel when the media completely botches any stories about aviation. Same things you are feeling now. I don't see as much sensationalism anymore though, which is nice. Course, I stopped watching the news, so pick your poison. I could count on my fist the number of times the media has gotten aircraft stories remotely correct.......sigh |
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fox news is pretty decent, IMO. |
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ever see the movie "no mans land?" thats how the media really is its horrible but true |
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no, but i kinda wanna see it now ;) |
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errrrr the mass media are businesses..... their main goal is to make money as long as they exist to make a profit, content will be whatever sells, not whats important or resposible or intelligent ESPECIALLY not intelligent, lol (but then: important to who? well thats a whole other story i guess..) |
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i think AMinal nailed it. Sex sells, so we get sex on tv. Sensationalism sells, so we get horrid details to fill a page to push one more unit. (it's all about pushing units) but yeah. Aminal, dead on |
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Aminal: then Autechre should start doing news. they could call it "Intelligent News Broadcasting" or INB |
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Here's another The Onion article in its entirety. I thought this thread would be appropriate for it considering the topic. its not so much funny as true. a sick kinda true. Missing White Girl Drives Missing Black Girl From Headlines CORVALLIS, OR— Becky Van Gelder, an 11-year-old white girl from Corvallis, was abducted from her home Monday, bumping 10-year-old Chicago black girl Tyesha Washington from the nation's newspaper headlines. "When a child is harmed, we all lose a small piece of our collective innocence," said USA Today managing editor Donna McCutcheon, who moved the Washington abduction to page 23A to make room for Van Gelder on the cover. "Especially when it's a young blonde girl like Becky." |
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that's true? I thought the Onion was all joke news based around the idea of political hyperbole/farce...? |
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the media goes out of the way to seem like its doing a great true story here... or something. I dont know, its really hard to explain - as if we as a society need a new word to describe something like this, because now human nature has evolved to something like this... sharks. |
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no no no...its fake..im just saying it really hits the mark on what seems to happen with the media. i have doubt something like that COULD happen. notice how the girl that took over the other girl was 'white' and 'blonde'... notice anything? its fake yeah...but somehow points fingers really well. |
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sharks is a good word. everyone is out biting the other. the smell of money turns people into crazed lunatics. |
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fucking capitolism...if we all weren't driven by the all mighty dollar this world would be a better place. i propose a system like the venus project (not sure if that's the name)...someone started a thread about it here a bit ago. |
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Lets vote Sean Booth for Canadian Prime Minister and Rob Brown for American President. i tell ya...the good those guys will do! SHWEET! |
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whats the venus project? |
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24 hour live coverage of an ant crossing the road, with new matrix style 360 degree camera angles..... interviews with fellow ants will then proceed though the following week followed by a step by stem synopse and detailed timeline. |
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LOL!!!! @ SwitchFrontside |
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You forgot to include the neon lights that say: ANT CROSSING 2002! |
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yeah, I know what you mean, i've read the onion before, but I wasn't sure if some were real and some were fake or if they were all fake.. ;) LoL@switchfrontside |
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http://www.thevenusproject.com/ |
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