IcyPatriot

Tonight the temperature in Providence is 26 degrees in the middle of January ... and it's a huge leadoff story. How does this relate to world politics? Very easily ... they make stories out of non stories with the aim of creating passion for future stories ... democracy captured.

LOL ... they just cam back to tell us that we should drive our car briefly during the night when the weather is cold. bunch of people driving around in pajamas, thongs, topless, nude , in onesies, flap on the bum pajamas....no wonder why the world thinks we are crazy ... they read this crap without ever knowing us.

PressCoverage

it's local news... that's what they do: talk about local stories... tell us, how would you present news according to FBN?

i mean, It's finally cold, there's a threat of the first snow...

i don't really see how this is "All you Ever Need to Know About the Media"

wistahpatsfan

I think FBN is referring to how the media makes a non-story into a story. This is something like, "The sun will rise today, isn't that amazing? Ordinary events are blown out of proportion when there is no news. Lots of times the big story in the media is about the media like with Katie Couric getting a new job. It's the crescendo of post-modernism in our lifetime, and there seems to be no limit on this crap. I'd love to hear them say, just once, "Sorry folks, there's no news tonight!"

Fogbuster

These media types have salaries that they have to justify, no matter what. It would be better for them to just get paid for saying nothing -- which is what they do, say inane stupid things, so often.

As the editors of the Washington Post said during the early stages of the Watergate BS, before it grew legs: "Well, if the public doesn't buy our story, looks like we'll all have to go out and get REAL JOBS." Sums it up very well. They know what they peddle most of the time is just filler, only stuff to justify their pay-check.



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PressCoverage

Justify their paycheck even? How sanctimonious... What do you do, exactly?

You'd probably be much happier in a world without free press, wouldn't you Foggy?

Real World

It begs the question, does the media shape the news, or does the public? Media types will never admit, or most anyhow, that the media shapes the news. Remember, the MSM controls the public more so than the public controls the MSM.

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Real World

No one is criticizing the free rights of the press. I think we'd all agree that their freedom is a benefit to the citizentry. What we are trying to point out is the power of the press to shape the news.

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Leo Tolstoy, 1897

Fogbuster

Now it's "sanctimonious", is it. Back to name-calling.

Too bad you don't like to admit the fact that there just isn't enough meaningful news to fill every single news paper or every single broadcast of every single day; at least not news that's worth the time of day. I'm not the one with the problem here, Newsy, you are.

You go first, Pressboy; are you a Globe stringer, or are still a grad TA?

Free press is great as long as it is responsible to the *whole* public. Being a private business in which only a few people actually receive financial benefit from the news paper or TV outlet, there is an inherent conflict of interest.

In earlier days of the US Republic there was enough of a common ethos to keep all interests in the same basic direction. Today is different, however, with the advent of an age of global change. Printing what is best for the public is getting more difficult all the time because there is still a major debate going on about "who" the public is: local, state, national, world. The result is that more and more often the press publishes filler or self-serving stuff, good for a few but not the best for all.

A free press has a major responsibility to the public which some have misguided over the years. A free press is only as good as the morality and ethics of the people who produce the news that's given to the public. If you don't see that there is no point in discussing it any further.


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PressCoverage

i have things to do today, but rest assured i'll be responding to this drivel a bit later... you clearly have no idea how a newsroom, nor a news cycle works...

Harry Boy

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