Truth and the Media

Truth and Media are NOT the same!

Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels made this clear. He said,

'When you keep telling lies to the masses they will eventually believe them...'

If God wanted man to move forward into the future He would not have told us to remember Him in the past.

Peace man!
Levi
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Wow..was I brainwashed or what! Sorry about that!

 

Go check out "Watching America" and see wazup.

 

the media is bullshit...evn the internet is full of it

 

You are right. The role of the media should be to inform, to present information in an objective way. But it doesn't happen so. Their information is not accurate because they hurry who should present it first, then they present it in such a way to portray the sensational. Titles say something, and the article says something else - also due to the search for the sensational.

 

Obviously no media source could ever achieve true objectivity.

But blaming the media itself is scapegoating. It hasn't failed because of widespread corruption or the secret agenda of a few elite. It has devolved into near uselessness because of the media system we have propogated.

People aren't willing to pay for media anymore; you can see this in the way that subscriptions and sales to physical papers are declining. Even the NY Times couldn't maintain a subscription service and is now free.

This forces them to rely on advertising money; to keep that money rolling in, they're forced to toe their coroporate line.

If 50 percent of the country was willing to pay five dollars a day for newspapers free of advertising, you would certainly see less influenced views from a wider variety of ideologies.

But people aren't, so were all stuck with shitty news.

 

Try Buzzflash and The Real News online.

 

democrats are the ones who want to spend outrageous amounts of money in order to "help the economy'

 

fuck the media.its all propaganda and shit, to brainwash the next generation.its all lies.

 

It seems like all the media is about is hyping whatever will sell the most ads. In the past 12 years I've maybe watched 20 shows on TV and most were documentries. Ignoring TV is probably the best way to escape the media bullshit.

 

I think that is very true.

 

I am proud to say i don't own a TV. if I need to watch something (usually a documentary), I go to YouTube, download it for free, rent it, or go to the library.

 

and that the greenhouse effect is a myth.

I've never heard a Republican argue that the "greenhouse effect" is a myth. You can demonstrate it in your own kitchen and prove it beyond a doubt. Not so with earth systems.

Most republicans reject "global warming" just because they believe that only religious doctrine is true, and that science is just an illusion that often works because God made it so.

But many (actually MOST in the last survey I read) climatologists have doubts that the warming we're seeing is anthropogenic. There's no concensus that the de-glaciation we're seeing is human-caused, at least not among climatologists. Scientists outside that field have reached a pretty solid concensus, and some climatologists have jumped on board with them. But those most specialized in the field of earth climate are the least likely to believe the warming to be human-caused.

 

News always contains a objective part and a subjective part, this is because truth is always a personal experience, and is defined by the individual.
What one takes as truth might not be experienced by another as truth.
The problems that we have are stupid people that forgot that there is a medium in there brain to critisize, instead of using this medium they find it easier to accept media as truth then to critisize it and try to take the objective parts in it as truth and filter the subjective part out of it.

 

I read the newspapers some are better then other but I always take every thing with a grain of salt. If I find something interesting I research it and try to get the best info out there and make my own decisions.

AP stuff is usually total propaganda (they are controlled by the federal licenses and permits)

And a lot of the left wing presses are pretty far out there with unproven theories.

I still like reading the news but I take it all with a grain of salt.

 

The media is more or less a reflection of society, everyone has their own biases and journalists are no different. That's why I try to keep a good balance of various news sources. I often keep tabs on the NY Times, The Washington Post, CNN, a bunch of different blogs of all political flavors, and on occassion I'll even watch Bill O'Reilly or listen to Sean Hannity's radio show. Yes, I know they're biased - what's important is to recognize the bias in *all* of your news sources.

 

The media prints what sells with quite a bit of government censorship for good measure.

 

Agreed. Besides, most sources of TV media now has a web presence anyway.

As a the great rock guitar legend Frank Zappa once said:
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want to be educated, go to a library."

 

I do not watch mainstream media, unless it's something really big happening (and even then I take it with a grain of salt.) The rest of the time they're just trying to get you to think what they want you to think.

There's a toolbar you can download called "StumbleUpon" -- it lets you search randomly through sites on the internet, and you'll often come across various independent news articles on the same issues. Very useful.