>>>>> Unfortunately, reporters are NOT "The Media" and most reporters don't
have a lot of influence over what gets reported or how it's presented.
Huh????? Reporters aren't the media? What are we, plumbers? Elevator
repairment? I sure thought I was media. My press pass is wrong?
>>>>> they all exist to make money, which they do by not pissing off their
advertisers, i.e. by selling product. Granted, in the case of stations like
CNN, their advertisers are the government and the product they sell is
complacency, but the theory still holds.
Look, I'm not trying to make enemies on this list, but I'm sick of these
absolutely ridiculous comments. It's one thing to have an opinion that is
radical; it's quite another to say something that is utter fiction or just
plain baloney. I don't know much about how to install a disk drive on a PDP-8,
so I don't comment on those threads. So unless anyone else on this list is
another reporter -- or unless you're willing to have an INTELLIGENT dicussion
-- then keep these grade-school opinions to yourselves... although "opinion" is
hardly the right word here, because it implies that you THOUGHT before writing
them.
No self-respecting reporter I've met in my whole career gives two shits about
what advertisers think of his stories. I sure as hell don't.
To Jay West and the vast majority of NORMAL list readers: sorry to put ya'll
through this. I just can't let this shit pass without defending my industry.
--- Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com> wrote:
> Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
>
> >>>>>Most of "The Media" does not exist to inform, enlighten, or educate. It
> >
> > exists to sell products.
> >
> > Bill: get real. That's an incredibly immature and uninformed
> generalization.
> > As a real reporter, I find your comemnt very, very offensive. As I've
> tried
> > explaining on this list before, the vast majority of we real reporters are
> > perfectly honorable, well-intended, upstanding citizens. But like in ANY
> > field, there are always few unethical idiots (i.e., Fox News) who,
> ironically,
> > get the most attention.
>
> *cough*snowjob*cough*
>
> As a real consumer, I could lump almost any major presentater of
> current events in with Fox News. The only real difference is the
> direction in which they slant their sludge.
>
> Bill wasn't whacking at you, or at reporters. He said "The Media".
> Unfortunately, reporters are NOT "The Media" and most reporters don't
> have a lot of influence over what gets reported or how it's presented.
>
> Newspapers, *zines, TV stations, etc are The Media. And they all
> exist to make money, which they do by not pissing off their advertisers,
> i.e. by selling product. Granted, in the case of stations like CNN,
> their advertisers are the government and the product they sell is
> complacency, but the theory still holds.
>
>
> Doc
>
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