06-09-2005, 07:27 PM
Minionman,Jun 8 2005, 08:37 PM Wrote:It seems people will just have to pay more attention to what goes on, which is why the whole thing works the way it does. You look around for stuff and get information, and try to get other people to do the same thing, so they can make better decisions when their time comes.
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The problem is the place we are supposed to get our information from, the media (fourth estate), which is supposed to be our watchdogs for government, corporations, etc. are being taken over and co-opted by the same forces they are supposed to watch over. Think about Clear Channel, News Corp, and hundreds of other vast corporate empires that have control over what information actually comes to us. Do you think they are really going to give us information that goes against their own private interests?
Facts in the news have become so diluted and obscured by spin and opinion that the only real facts you get are "an unidentified white male was shot while crossing the street to get a pizza." It's gotten to the point that the news doesn't even report politcal items as fact but of opinion for fear of offending someones political sensability. Used to be that so-called bias regarded the way facts were represented in the news, not anymore. Now the facts themselves are regarded as being biased depending on who they benifit and who they hurt.