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  • Do you care about the news or should I say "Controled information"

    I see all kinds of threads talking about the war and what people should do and beleive but the truth is that we know very little of what's going on because what we know is what THEY want us to know.

    I mean, I watch the news but really dont take everything I hear as 100% true. How can people argue about these things?

    The governmenmts keep us ingnorant and shallow and makes us beleive what they want. What I mean is that we have people from all over the globe arguing about the crisis in Iraq here on apolyton when what they here in the news in their country is really not the same as what someone else heres in his country. How can you believe that what YOU think is true.

    Bottom line is: We dont know shlt.


    Spec.
    -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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    Re: Do you care about the news or should I say "Controled information"

    Originally posted by Spectator
    Bottom line is: We dont know shlt.
    Spec.
    Your giving them more credit than they deserve. Watched Blair give a speech on BBC, then watched CNN's version of sound bites put a whole other twist
    on the speech.

    Gobblels would have co-ordinated his "news" services.

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    • #3
      Re: Re: Do you care about the news or should I say "Controled information"

      Originally posted by Ozz


      Watched Blair give a speech on BBC, then watched CNN's version of sound bites put a whole other twist
      on the speech.
      Exactly what I ment.
      -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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      • #4
        That's mostly why I don't bother with the news.
        Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse

        Do It Ourselves

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        • #5
          The only way to be as informed as possible is to get your news from as many places as you can.

          Before the Net, I used short wave radio to listen to news takes from all over. Now it's a lot easier, but you still need to read between the lines to know what's really going on.

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          • #6
            You make it sound like some sort of government conspiracy with the media, which I could never believe. The media freely reports on information to which they can gain access ( and lots of government manipulation occurrs here in limiting or allowinf selective access). Then this information gets filtered through the particular bias of the reporter or newspaper before the public gets access.

            Media bias is nothing new.
            You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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            • #7
              A handful of multi-national corporations and conglomerates controls the US media. But they also control a lot of politicians in the government. So Flubber is more correct. It's not the government controlling the media.
              To us, it is the BEAST.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Nivek
                Before the Net, I used short wave radio to listen to news takes from all over.
                Short wave news is less biased, more fact based.
                Every country has a station, thence a voice and they
                almost all do english boardcasts.

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                • #9
                  all I know is I'm not one of theses freak who think Saddam Hussein is telling the truth and Bush is lying. Yes I heard this from a liberal just the other day.

                  Bush could be lying mind you, but that doesn't mean I'll take Hussein's word over Bush's.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Ozz


                    Short wave news is less biased, more fact based.
                    Every country has a station, thence a voice and they
                    almost all do english boardcasts.
                    Short wave broadcasts may currently be less biased but there is nothing inherent in them that make this necessarily the case. As for being fact-based, there are no facts which cannot be twisted .

                    If 10 people are shot in Elbonia, it can be " Government drives back rebel assault, kills 10" or it can be " Ten massacred in government attack". Its all in the slant.


                    and Sava, I also don't believe that corporate America ever gets together as one entity to decide how to spin the news. Instead that come to similar decisions most of the time independently and then will tend to mimic stories that seem to be garnering viership
                    You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Dissident
                      all I know is I'm not one of theses freak who think Saddam Hussein is telling the truth and Bush is lying. Yes I heard this from a liberal just the other day.

                      Bush could be lying mind you, but that doesn't mean I'll take Hussein's word over Bush's.
                      A voice of reason appears.
                      "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Flubber
                        You make it sound like some sort of government conspiracy with the media, which I could never believe.


                        Omg, wake up and smell the bullshlt.
                        -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Do you care about the news or should I say "Controled information"

                          Hey, this is one of them trick questions, isn't it?
                          urgh.NSFW

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                          • #14
                            Of course you shouldn't believe anything that the media tells you but it's the only source of information we have. And I think that if you always keep in mind the intentions of the author you get along pretty fine as long as you live in a democracy.
                            "Cogito Ergo Sum" - Rene Descartes, French Mathematician

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Spectator




                              Omg, wake up and smell the bullshlt.

                              Brilliant-- The strength of your argument is only superceded by its brevity
                              You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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