28 Oct
2003
28 Oct
'03
10:27 a.m.
Hi
I thought I might add that our local newspaper also creates
many contrived stories. Although it would seem to the general
reader that they were getting better coverage, most of the
stories are misleading. Almost all of the quotes are taken
from context and were not even originally spoken in terms
of the created story. It is called freedom of the press.
I tend to call it fraud.
I don't consider fiction as useful information regardless
of how close to home it is or what cause it promotes.
Dwight
From what I remember about history the local papers
were made by founding
fathers to print bad stories about each other before elections
(some things
never change). The media has a long history of making up stories and
printing outright lies, its actually better today then 100 years ago. The
whole point of a newspaper is to make money, anything that people are
interested in at the time is put in the paper. My standard aproach to media
stories wether they are in print, on tv, or on the radio is too think of
what the angle is of the publisher and what the source of the story has to
gain with their left or right spin on it. I am sure everybody over the age
of 18 knows that everything that is fed to us is tainted with some bullshit
or spin by the people who print it because of finacial oir political gain
and also from just lazy reporter not checking on the facts.
Was it the NY times that fired a reporter this year for just making stuff up
in many of his articles? If such a large paper doesnt check the facts before
publishing stories what do you expect from the little local papers? Dont get
me started on 24/7 CNN type channels that have to get something new every
few hours just to keep a story going on the air.