Hey Commy. Here's something I'd like to know your POV on....mainstream news tells us global warming is not real. Fact? or fiction? "The mainstream media tells me it's not so...." Just as a NASA scientist was threatened by Bush himself, if he released his findings on climate change a couple years ago. He quit and then released the findings himself.
The war in Iraq. Tell me the facts in US mainstream news about what's going on day to day. because we see NOTHING. Because reality isn't seen on the nightly news. Granted, you mentioned that they purposely leave out info, well, they leave out Iraq on a daily basis. The Bush admin. had banned soldier's from talking to the media and the caskets of those killed were banned from the media. Obama has lifted the ban on casket viewing. Still, not everything is presented. There's much more going on that the media refuses to show....many of that are the facts we're kept in the dark about.
The mainstream news I've seen always says that global warming is real...
Hey Commy. Here's something I'd like to know your POV on....mainstream news tells us global warming is not real. Fact? or fiction? "The mainstream media tells me it's not so...." Just as a NASA scientist was threatened by Bush himself, if he released his findings on climate change a couple years ago. He quit and then released the findings himself.
The war in Iraq. Tell me the facts in US mainstream news about what's going on day to day. because we see NOTHING. Because reality isn't seen on the nightly news. Granted, you mentioned that they purposely leave out info, well, they leave out Iraq on a daily basis. The Bush admin. had banned soldier's from talking to the media and the caskets of those killed were banned from the media. Obama has lifted the ban on casket viewing. Still, not everything is presented. There's much more going on that the media refuses to show....many of that are the facts we're kept in the dark about.
The mainstream news I've seen always says that global warming is real...
i agree with most of this jeanwah. seems like the first reaction is to ignore any story of importance. they only start reporting on something when they are forced to..when another independent media source picks up the story or when some journalist goes rogue. or when certain windows open up...like during watergate journalists were actually allowed to do their jobs, and plenty of good information was reported in that window. things that mattered. but most of the time any good story is edited out.
i was watching a documentary on this...and some suit was standing there saying 'well its not like someone is sitting in an office deciding the news for the day'. but when you think about it that's exactly what is going on. some editor or producer IS deciding the news for the day. and when all of these editors and producers work for corporations that have agendas...the news we get is in no way going to contradict the views of the corporate masters.
so i don't agree that the msm is against global warming, or for it. i think they are ignoring the issue entirely, as they do with any story of importance.
maybe we can agree at times the media puts out pure pieces of propaganda, other times it all comes down to the wording. like was pointed out with Israel/Palestine. i forget who, i think it may have been Chomsky but anyway, someone wrote something about how the AP will edit their stories as the day goes by and it showed how the slant of the story changed with the edits...they also used an israel/palestine AP story and in the end it listed exactly how many Israeli's died and things like that but didn't mention how many Palestinians died and things like that. the story was still, for the most part, factual but the way they worded it and what information they pushed gave it a bias and pro Israeli slant.
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The mainstream news I've seen always says that global warming is real...
i agree with most of this jeanwah. seems like the first reaction is to ignore any story of importance. they only start reporting on something when they are forced to..when another independent media source picks up the story or when some journalist goes rogue. or when certain windows open up...like during watergate journalists were actually allowed to do their jobs, and plenty of good information was reported in that window. things that mattered. but most of the time any good story is edited out.
i was watching a documentary on this...and some suit was standing there saying 'well its not like someone is sitting in an office deciding the news for the day'. but when you think about it that's exactly what is going on. some editor or producer IS deciding the news for the day. and when all of these editors and producers work for corporations that have agendas...the news we get is in no way going to contradict the views of the corporate masters.
so i don't agree that the msm is against global warming, or for it. i think they are ignoring the issue entirely, as they do with any story of importance.
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
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