07-27-2006, 04:51 PM | #1 |
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The media
by popular demand, here comes da media thread, jump on in ... sources a problem? who cares, this is the media!
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07-27-2006, 04:56 PM | #2 |
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sometimes annoying little *beep* aren't they.
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07-27-2006, 04:58 PM | #3 |
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nice to see el Jammi kick this off with a tabloid 'in depth 'report!
in da words of da dufflepuds ...keep it up chief ...keep it up! (heh, will be training some right UK hacks how to shoot video for the tabloids soon ... gonna be a larf! ) best BB Last edited by Butterbeer : 07-27-2006 at 05:00 PM. |
07-27-2006, 05:03 PM | #4 |
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especially papers like the Sun and Mirror, which always lie, or really exaggerate the truth. now, you can defernatly trust the Independant, which is totally unbiased.
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07-27-2006, 05:06 PM | #5 |
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yes, in a middle class western-centric liberal leaning world-view kinda way it IS unbiased!
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07-27-2006, 05:15 PM | #6 |
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are you making fun of what i read?
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07-27-2006, 05:20 PM | #7 |
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I have a love-hate relationship with Fox News and its conservative slant. They can be so biased that its ridiculous
I also love (hate?) the Fox news ticker "Terror Alert: Elevated" that scolls every other minute - a constant reminder that we are not safe.
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07-27-2006, 05:34 PM | #8 |
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and you like them because...
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07-27-2006, 05:49 PM | #10 |
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true, true.
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07-27-2006, 07:50 PM | #11 |
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All media sources are biased, peeps. Some are biased towards liberalism, some towards conservatism. It's just a question of degree.
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07-28-2006, 02:28 AM | #12 |
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Woah, deja vu... I just said that very same thing on another site today gwai. Eeep.
*goes off to dust off the tin foil hat
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That's too glib and simplistic, and it's not true. Almost all of them have a conservative bias.
The first thing one needs to do is to put the various media into categories according to who owns them and who calls the editorial tune. Almost all mainstream TV outlets are large corporations and biased by their ownership, some more so than others. CNN is a good example: typically cited as "liberal", it follows the same corporatist agenda as Fox, it's just less openly biased. Quote:
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07-28-2006, 04:47 PM | #14 |
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so... thoughts on Murdoch and his peers?
favourite / most hated papers ? tell me about Fox ... how is ABC perceived over there? da BBC? new media and it's brave new, to be consumed tiredly, world? Blogs and one world? mass independent individual communication? web forums and specilasist sites? video email? on demand mobile world? VNR's? viral ads? Belgian tv? Aussie tv? Kiwi tv? swedish and Norwegian tv? corporate film messages and product placement? anti Corporate / establishment themes in the movies? Celebreity culture and reality TV? |
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I'm trying to write a reply to your other excellent point, but it keeps turning into a rant (with excessive use of the words 'smug', 'incestuous' 'lazy' and 'patronising self-fertilising professional media class') so I might hold off on that for a bit
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07-31-2006, 10:37 AM | #16 |
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a little Right Wing Humor
ABC- the All Bill Clinton network
CBS- canned B*** S*** network NBC- the New Bill Clinton network CNN- the Clinton News Network |
07-31-2006, 10:39 AM | #17 |
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P.S. Fox was abducted by the renegade aliens and Scully is still looking for him.
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07-31-2006, 04:23 PM | #18 |
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i read four newspapers, only two regularly
i read the somerset county gazette and the bridgwater mercury regularly, and when i get to i also read the guardian and the independent. i used to read the times (lord only knows why) occasionally i also read the west somerset free press too i dont like the news on bbc or itv, it is poor reporting, and often biased...i watch channel5 news or channel4 news...i do however watch bbc news 24 at nite for the next days weather |
07-31-2006, 05:04 PM | #19 |
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i actually think that channel 4 news is very biased compared to the bbc news.
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Wow, somebody's still smarting about Clinton. Did he give you a knock-back or something?
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