Anyone else annoyed/bemused with US media?

norm

MrBrian wrote:

CNN had a "bullet counter" the other day, counting each shot fired at virg tech. a bullet counter on the side! it was like a baseball game or something showing stats. just kinda weird. then they just loop it. over and over.

please, please, pleeeeeeaaaase tell me you're kidding.......:eek:

somebodyelsessky2020

cutback wrote:

please, please, pleeeeeeaaaase tell me you're kidding.......:eek:

i seen the bullet counter too he's not kidding i think it counted up to 28 if i'm not mistaken.

norm

somebodyelse'ssky wrote:

i seen the bullet counter too he's not kidding i think it counted up to 28 if i'm not mistaken.

that is fucking wrong...............what kind of asshole thinks that up........:mad:....another reason why I don't bother with the so-called media........$$$$ before facts........

somebodyelsessky2020

cutback wrote:

that is fucking wrong...............what kind of asshole thinks that up........:mad:....another reason why I don't bother with the so-called media........$$$$ before facts........

i was there watching thinking what the hell is this? they made it seem like the countdown to new years with the digits ticking every time you could hear a pop. it was a video a kid filmed on his cell phone from outside the building.

norm

somebodyelse'ssky wrote:

i was there watching thinking what the hell is this? they made it seem like the countdown to new years with the digits ticking every time you could hear a pop. it was a video a kid filmed on his cell phone from outside the building.

that makes me wanna puke and cry........has society's value of life got this low........:(

somebodyelsessky2020

cutback wrote:

that makes me wanna puke and cry........has society's value of life got this low........:(

i don't know if i would say society as a whole but the media sure has.

MrBrian

cutback wrote:

that makes me wanna puke and cry........has society's value of life got this low........:(

what, you forgot about "shock and awe"?
The media made that whole thing look like a video game.

norm

somebodyelse'ssky wrote:

i don't know if i would say society as a whole but the media sure has.

yeah but cnn, foxnews et al are driven by ratings and they do a lot of research on what their viewers want to increase their ratings so theoretically they are reflecting society........it's a bit of a stretch I know but I think (hope) you see my point...:)

norm

MrBrian wrote:

what, you forgot about "shock and awe"?
The media made that whole thing look like a video game.

I've become numb to the horseshit Iraq coverage.......:(

somebodyelsessky2020

cutback wrote:

yeah but cnn, foxnews et al are driven by ratings and they do a lot of research on what their viewers want to increase their ratings so theoretically they are reflecting society........it's a bit of a stretch I know but I think (hope) you see my point...:)

yeah i got ya.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

MrBrian wrote:

what, you forgot about "shock and awe"?
The media made that whole thing look like a video game.

Yeah no doubt...I kept fumbling with my joystick all night wondering why the screen wasn't responding...





uhm...maybe that didn't come out quite right

MrBrian

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Yeah no doubt...I kept fumbling with my joystick all night wondering why the screen wasn't responding...





uhm...maybe that didn't come out quite right

eeeeewwwww! haha.

norm

something i've wondered and i think i'll ask it here........i just got home and turned on the tv and dateline is on and stone jackoff is interviewing the father of one of the vt victims...........my question is......why would anyone want to go on tv and be exploited like that?.........i just lost my daughter in a violent murder so please mic me up and lets chat..........:rolleyes:

Pacomc79

Cosmo wrote:

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Yes.
The whole Iraq thing is like a non-issue. I think it may be because we... the vast American populous... do not feel any pain in this war. The only ones making REAL sacrifices are the militaty personel over there and their families. The rest of us aren't doing shit. We are not suffering the 15 month seperations... the anxieties of I.E.D.s... the trauma of a casualty... the unimaginable pain of death. We are not asked to sacrifice anything... not rationing or shortages of goods and services... hell, we aren't even paying for this... or kids and their kids are getting slipped the bill.
And those yellow magnets that were Made in China on the back of your car... sorry, they don't count.

and honestly, the national guard people are the ones really getting fucked.

I have a guy I work with that was there for the maximum term when I first started working at my company, in the last year he's been pulled out every other month for a 2 week stint in Haiti or what have you for logistics and training, then in June, now that they've reached the minimum time they can be off, they will be sent back until June or July 09.

uh, yeah, how are you supposed to stay employed with that shit?

RolandTD20Kdrummer

cutback wrote:

something i've wondered and i think i'll ask it here........i just got home and turned on the tv and dateline is on and stone jackoff is interviewing the father of one of the vt victims...........my question is......why would anyone want to go on tv and be exploited like that?.........i just lost my daughter in a violent murder so please mic me up and lets chat..........:rolleyes:

CASH-OLA!!!

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Pacomc79 wrote:

and honestly, the national guard people are the ones really getting fucked.

I have a guy I work with that was there for the maximum term when I first started working at my company, in the last year he's been pulled out every other month for a 2 week stint in Haiti or what have you for logistics and training, then in June, now that they've reached the minimum time they can be off, they will be sent back until June or July 09.

uh, yeah, how are you supposed to stay employed with that shit?

One thing I've always wondered if you volunteer in the army, why the fuck can't you volunteer out the exact same way you walked in?

I can stand on a street corner and scream for weeks how I'm not patriotic. I'll get some weird looks and comments but that's about all that will happen to me. Try dropping the gun in Iraq and saying I've had enough of this shit....later..

sounds like making a deal with the devil to me...

polaris

it boils down to 2 things: ignorance and guilt

people want to remain ignorant so they can avoid guilt ... it is quite simple ... no one wants to hear about the humanitarian crisis in sudan or the atrocities occuring in burma ... no one wants to hear those things because it creates a guilt ... same thing goes for the environment ... no one wants to know what their impacts are to the rest of society so they continue to only care about themselves ...

Pacomc79

polaris wrote:

it boils down to 2 things: ignorance and guilt

people want to remain ignorant so they can avoid guilt ... it is quite simple ... no one wants to hear about the humanitarian crisis in sudan or the atrocities occuring in burma ... no one wants to hear those things because it creates a guilt ... same thing goes for the environment ... no one wants to know what their impacts are to the rest of society so they continue to only care about themselves ...

yeah wow, Africa. It really dosen't matter what kind of government you are or even what political philosophy you happen to agree with....no one wants to do ANYthing in Africa.

The UN loves posting troops on the borders (Rwanda) until the situation subsides. We avoided the "G" word while that happened, this is YEARS worth of slaughter in Sudan and it's government sponsored but we are afraid to send peace keeping forces in for fear of angering the sudanese govt? Why? Why is anyone afraid of Sudan?

it's probably "black hawk down" events like the ones in Somalia that preclude nations from acting, but yeah it's awful and it has been for years.

It's pretty silly to have all these photo ops of politicians talking about ending Genocide while remembering the holocaust all the while refusing to do anything real to end the genocide in various places around the globe.... but I don't think anything is going to happen to change it really.

polaris

Pacomc79 wrote:

yeah wow, Africa. It really dosen't matter what kind of government you are or even what political philosophy you happen to agree with....no one wants to do ANYthing in Africa.

The UN loves posting troops on the borders (Rwanda) until the situation subsides. We avoided the "G" word while that happened, this is YEARS worth of slaughter in Sudan and it's government sponsored but we are afraid to send peace keeping forces in for fear of angering the sudanese govt? Why? Why is anyone afraid of Sudan?

it's probably "black hawk down" events like the ones in Somalia that preclude nations from acting, but yeah it's awful and it has been for years.

It's pretty silly to have all these photo ops of politicians talking about ending Genocide while remembering the holocaust all the while refusing to do anything real to end the genocide in various places around the globe.... but I don't think anything is going to happen to change it really.

because everything is a ruse ... the only people that truly care are those working for non-profits ... there are too many powerful people with their own self interests at the UN, IMF, world bank for there ever to be anything done ...

africa's history is based on expoitation ... why would the rich countries now want to go in and help fix the problem they created?? ...

Jeanwah

pjflea wrote:

Seriously though, I made a similar statement about the 24hr news stations in the US, in my British history class, and my professor made an interesting comeback. I stated that the BBC does a much better job of presenting news in a fair and reasonable manner than CNN and other televised news sources.

She responded that a) many people in Britain don't like the BBC news, and prefer to get informed from more entertaining mediums (I have no idea if this is true or not. If any of you live in the UK you could verify it.) and b) The flashy nature of the cable news channels appeals to the masses, and that is what the majority of people want.

I think this is BS, but hey, to each their own.

I can see how this could be true, seeing that the news in the U.S. has become nothing but entertainment. Now the question stands is how they can make the news as entertaining as Dancing with the Stars and American Idol...They'd better continue updating us on the saga of Anna Nicole's baby, cause no one seems to want to hear actual news anymore, and Bush's administration continues to keep the real news hidden.