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Do you think the media negatively impacts our lives, ie, hearing about murders and various crimes, and would a media source that was purely positive change anything? would people watch?

media can be a positive thing, reporting events, scientific acheivements, and the like, but it also has the power to be quite negative, if the company that owns the paper (i.e. the company that owns the Toronto-based "Globe and Mail"-the most reliable source of news in Toronto- is Bell.) has views that it would rather put into the paper than the actual news. as soon as something is sponsored by a large company, it's reliability comes into direct question.

to circumvent this, one must read several newspapers or view many different facets of media and reason with yourself to discern fact from corporate spin.

those be my views on the matter.

in answer to your second question:

a media outlet that is purely positive (i.e. not funded by companies, posting both sides of a story, being neutral in all matters) would probably shot down by the other, more mainstream, media facets for being unreliable, a false claim in any respect.

people would be encouraged by the mainstream media not to watch, and unless you are very intelligent and cynical, you won't. therefore, since not many people are, the purely positive media would bottom out, unless i am much mistaken.

i think, however, that your suggestion of purely positive media is really great. however, such a description as "purely positive" is much too vague, and my idea of it which i posted above may not hold with others.

I write for the Associated Press and 60% of the stories on the wire are crime-ish type things, and those are the ones that get picked up the most. It's my not so secret brainchild to create something that is purely inspirational, even in tragic losses.

I just watched a movie this weekend that made me so excited to go to work on Monday and write, and then I turned on the news and watched 3+ stories about murder. I know it's my choice to watch it, but if there were an outlet non religious based out there that was full of good stuff, I'd would have changed the channel. Is that universal?

Years of training have enabled me to ignore the media completely.

I now experience life vicariously through an osprey while happily living underneath a stone.

Years of training have enabled me to ignore the media completely.

I now experience life vicariously through an osprey while happily living underneath a stone.

And you're still better informed then you would be watching the news.

And you're still better informed then you would be watching the news.

Aye. Though everything I hear is still a tad fishy.

:D

Shh! I'm tryin' to watch TV.

Do you think the media negatively impacts our lives, ie, hearing about murders and various crimes, and would a media source that was purely positive change anything? would people watch?

Media?

Are we talking about print, radio, news broadcasting, entertainment, movies, music, web, etc...? If you consider everything, media is everything at once. It's simultaneously the most reliable and the most misleading part of our life; the most informative and and persuasive of all things, all at once, even if they contradict each other.

You really, really need to be more specific. For every talking head on CNN, there is another to say the exact opposite; for every murder story there is one of those warm and fuzzy "triumph in the face of adversity" stories people eat up.

Really, the media only really gives you what you are willing to take from it.

Do you think the media negatively impacts our lives, ie, hearing about murders and various crimes, and would a media source that was purely positive change anything? would people watch?

Yes a purely positive media would help considerably compared to the evil that is emitted from the current evil media.

Does anyone remember the "Sidious Revealed" thing I did only it was the media version?

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Darth Tastelessness: Are you threatening me master Disney?

Disney: The board of ethics will decide that!

Tastelessness: I am the board of ethics!

Disney: Not yet!

Tastelessness: It is treason then...*makes light saber fly into hand*

Media?

Are we talking about print, radio, news broadcasting, entertainment, movies, music, web, etc...? If you consider everything, media is everything at once. It's simultaneously the most reliable and the most misleading part of our life; the most informative and and persuasive of all things, all at once, even if they contradict each other.

You really, really need to be more specific. For every talking head on CNN, there is another to say the exact opposite; for every murder story there is one of those warm and fuzzy "triumph in the face of adversity" stories people eat up.

Really, the media only really gives you what you are willing to take from it.




I'm talking about all media...tv, magazines, newspapers, etc.... I really don't agree that there is a warm fuzzy story for every murder one.... I'd say maybe one for every ten crime ones, and the crimes definitely get more airplay unless a celebrity is backing it.

Being a journalist and someone who is very familiar with the way that it works I can tell you that the media gives you what sells, not what you want to take. Stories are written in a specific way to get the most readership in order to sell ads.

I'm talking about all media...tv, magazines, newspapers, etc.... I really don't agree that there is a warm fuzzy story for every murder one.... I'd say maybe one for every ten crime ones, and the crimes definitely get more airplay unless a celebrity is backing it.

Being a journalist and someone who is very familiar with the way that it works I can tell you that the media gives you what sells, not what you want to take. Stories are written in a specific way to get the most readership in order to sell ads.

Dude, "what people are willing to take" and "what sells" are the exact same statements! They aren't strapping anyone down and forcing them to watch television, they're giving people what they want. A drug user does not blame a dealer for his addiction - he alone owns it.

Turn off the TV/computer and every murder in the world goes away. It doesn't effect you. Out of sight, out of mind. People don't want that. They want, nay... NEED to know. They need to hear about it, talk about it, opine about it, worry about it.

That is what sells ad space.

Dude, "what people are willing to take" and "what sells" are the exact same statements! They aren't strapping anyone down and forcing them to watch television, they're giving people what they want. A drug user does not blame a dealer for his addiction - he alone owns it.

Turn off the TV/computer and every murder in the world goes away. It doesn't effect you. Out of sight, out of mind. People don't want that. They want, nay... NEED to know. They need to hear about it, talk about it, opine about it, worry about it.

That is what sells ad space.


When we're sitting around on Tuesdays picking what stories we want to do the general public never comes up. WE pick what WE want. You chose what you see.