archer wrote: BS Rick.....the media is a reflection of what the majority of the American people are thinking. If they weren't, people wouldn't watch.
BULLSH*T... You obviously didn't watch the media coverage BEFORE Obama was ever elected. And you obviously ignore the fact that the majority of Americans haven't liked the ACA from the beginning, yet the MSM media DID ignore that fact. They will now when it implodes and all the promises made are found to be complete BULLSH*T.
You are wrong rick, about everything in that post, but your conservative colored glasses will never let you see that.
archer wrote: BS Rick.....the media is a reflection of what the majority of the American people are thinking. If they weren't, people wouldn't watch.
Are you crazy? The media is reflection of the audience that the advertisers want to market to. You do realize the media is a bunch of business and the customers are not you, they are the businesses that pay them for ads. They make programing that sucks you in to raise the rates they can get. You also realize that the media cannot function without permission and the broadcast rights held by the govt in monopoly, the must do as the govt says in order to even get to lie to you to get advertisers to buy ad time.
Now if you are saying the people want to be lied to and have huge omissions in information, well then I would have no argument. I would also not argue that most do not care about the future if they can get more now, so in that regard, most of the media does reflect what people want. Actually after thinking about it you are correct, most news simply talks about how people can get stuff from others without working for it or convincing them to give it up, so the media does reflect the selfish and tertiary violence that most are more than willing to dish out simply to get more stuff.
If it bleeds it leads, it's just a matter of which demographic the various media outlets think will get them the most viewership and higher ratings. Apply a little common sense when considering the news, who owns a particular media outlet, and what each outlet stands to gain for biased reporting.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
