The media fails these days. Apparently, many people realize this:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/06/press-trust-poll/

It seems odd that it would vary by medium. I mean, it's still basically the same information from the same people, right?

Presentation is the key?

People tend to trust the Internet more because they feel the "filter" has been removed....

Print media has editors, and is a homogonized version of the Internet news.

Radio and TV are ratings driven, hence drawing more scorn. How many times have you seen the promos for the local news: "Is that Thanksgiving Day turkey going to kill you? Tune in on our special Thanksgiving day coverage, and find out tonight, at 11."?

Those comments are so wacky.
I did like #7 talking about how papers were endorsing candidates though ... whose bad idea was that?
Is this a product of the post 9 11 world? For far too long our media looked the other way for fears of not being patriotic enough?
Or perhaps that the media in this country is a for profit enterprise owned by only a few massive companies represented ironically by the cartoon caracters of Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, and Rupert Murdoch.

Powerful folks know how well advertisement and propoganda works. I would think we even do. If you want to make a opionion became that of the masses there is no better way than to have them hear it on a daily basis. If you hear something enough times and long enough....one will come to believe it.

I think that might be why folks have a tendancy not to believe the news? What would make folks not believe the news?

If you want to make a opionion became that of the masses there is no better way than to have them hear it on a daily basis. If you hear something enough times and long enough....one will come to believe it.



This explains exactly why political campaigns are all about fund-raising to pay for print and radio and television advertising.

I'd like to see the breakdown of radio into NPR, political talk radio, and generic stations.

Malse, where the hell have you been? We've missed your cynical self.

Malse, where the hell have you been? We've missed your cynical self.


He's been at evil school.

People are generally good enough at making fools of themselves they didn't really need the extra help!

I was fairly busy over the holidays and got logged out like back in October and never get around to trying to remember my password until Sanchek got lonely one night and called me at 3am for sloppy make-up sex. In the pillow talk afterwards he mentioned how much he missed me, so here I am. The extreme difficulty of hitting the "I r dum, send me passwurd plz!" button should be a good indication of my ravenous appetite for the US party primary screaming matches :>

I'm jealous, he never gives me pillow talk.

Heya Malse! Um ya Down with the Media... but I do not count Kelraz as media just a pawn in the bigger game!

haha I kinda like the pawn term, we always refer to ourselves as television monkeys. I should put pawn on my business cards ;)

Or television monkey pawn!!