Here's why newsmedia sucks so much:
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Silver said:
ur hot for Boy?
Well watching a washed-up ex heroin adict singer from the 80's sweep is entertaining.
i think sanjuro wants his pants.
narlus said:
There isn't some big conspiracy here. The newsmedia wants to make money, to do so they give the average schmuck what they want. The LCD wants garbage not what is really going on in the world. And crappy journalism has been going on for a very long time, remember yellow journalism from middle school history?rockwool said:
They do suck.
Cindy Lauper is much bigger newz.
Cindy Lauper is much bigger newz.
Maybe it’s not a big conspiracy, but distraction from government affairs was part of the government’s policies. Advertisers, in coordination with the government, developed the concept of the nuclear family to accomplish 2 primary goals:Westy said:
1) boost consumerism to help the economy
2) get Americans to be more concerned about their own lives ("keeping up with the Jones") so that way they would turn their attention away from world issues.
Check out:
THE WAY WE NEVER WERE: AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THE NOSTALGIA TRAP by Stephanie Coontz
"The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity on Network Television" by George Lipsitz (article in - Race and Class in Media: a text-reader edited by Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez, Sage Publications, Inc. Thousand Oaks California. 2003).
True but they had the death star.Ciaran said:
Hardly a fair fight.
I wanted to use that joke. No fair.kidwoo said:
Cut from Wikipedia:Old Man G Funk said:
"The yellow press covered the revolution extensively and often inaccurately /.../ after the United States declared war on Spain, /.../ President William McKinley never read the Journal, and newspapers like the Tribune and the New York Evening Post, both staunchly Republican, demanded restraint."
-Those were the days...