HermitFromPluto wrote:8O http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5778 ... s-tv-host/Camels are of course a feral animal in Australia dear host, they are destroying native animals' habitats, yes killing other cute furry Australian animals. How about we send you 100 camels and you look after them and drink their wasted milk
mbassoc2003 wrote:This is something I've noticed each time I've been to the US. In the UK a newscaster would be sacked for that.
Kingofpain89 wrote:I think I saw this guy at Gen Con last year:http://www.madison.com/tct/top5/460817
jasonw1239 wrote:Media outlets of any kind are ultimately responsible only to their owners and shareholders.This means that they have to carefully cultivate their main source of income which is the advertisers.Add to that stew an unhealthy dose of large multinational corporations buying up independent media outlets (newspapers, radio stations, etc.).This places hundreds of radio stations (and the source of info to the general public) into the hands of just a few companies.
JasonZavoda wrote:It is good to know he will be released unless they can absolutely prove he is still a psycho. Sheesh.
Badmike wrote:Also remember not to equate "They don't believe what I believe" with "They are stupid". It doesn't always work like that.....!
mbassoc2003 wrote:This is something I've noticed each time I've been to the US. In the UK a newscaster would be sacked for that. In fact, if an editorial staff were involved, the entire editorial staff would be sacked.I have noticed that television 'news' is very biased and bigotted in America. On practically every channel you watch, it is either very heavily politically motivated newscasting, selective in what 'facts' are presented and which ones are 'conveniently left out', or downright racist against one cast or other.The general populus in the US has no choice but to buy in to one view or other, and is never given the opportunity to exercise judgement or develope their own set of values with which to judge things fairly or dispassionately. Until you've lived away from the US for any length of time, you have no real way of understanding how distorted the world view presented to you really is.I realise that most of the people on the board are better educated than most, buy virtue of their selected hobby, but the masses are not. The vast majority are drip fed this sort of crap all the way theough school and all the way through their lives. Something like 90% of Americans never even leave the States and live their entire lives believing this shit.
Badmike wrote:We get the nightly BBC feed here in the states on public television. I watch it occasionally and often detect what I appear to be a bias. It's more subtle, but it's there.
FormCritic wrote:Far more alarming to me than media bias is the number of otherwise intelligent people who are unable to sort it out. The key to understanding what is real and what is bias is not listening to the right source but in applying the filters of actual knowledge, common sense and critical thinking.
FormCritic wrote:I like to watch the BBC for its British spin on world events. American meda tends to report events in other countries through a not-so-subtle lens which projects American politics onto foreign countries with extremely different cultures. Aside from being overtly anti-Israel (from an American point of view), the BBC seems to see the world more clearly.
