News and Media! I hate them!

[I am Normal! Hahahaha!]

The news and media blow things out of proportion. Everything is just so stupid. I hate watching the news because they show no remorse or anything. It gets on my nerves. I hate it. They go from something so depressing to something happy. The way they make their voice change its annoying. How can they really do that?????:mad:

[walt]

the news can only release so much coverage and then snap the government will shut it down because of the severity of what is going on over in iraq i have some friends overtheir and they have seen far worse stuff than they can report and they seen a camara man get wounded by his staff sergeant for shooting footage of one of our guys shot in the leg so if you really must know the army and government have to shut these guys down sometimes because it is the armies place to tell that persons family what happened not the news teams and katrina was a disgrace to the government because there slow ass response time and i am surprised thay were able to show all that they did
hope i helped sicereley walt

[walt]

the news can only release so much coverage and then snap the government will shut it down because of the severity of what is going on over in iraq i have some friends overtheir and they have seen far worse stuff than they can report and they seen a camara man get wounded by his staff sergeant for shooting footage of one of our guys shoot in the leg so if you really must know the army and government has to shut these guys down sometimes because it is the armies place to tell that persons family what happened not the news teams and katrina was a disgrace to the government because there slow ass response time and i am surprised thay were able to show all that they did
hope i helped sicereley walt

[I am Normal! Hahahaha!]

Well maybe but I still hate 'em!!!!

[Zzyzx]

The news and media blow things out of proportion. Everything is just so stupid. I hate watching the news because they show no remorse or anything. It gets on my nerves. I hate it. They go from something so depressing to something happy. The way they make their voice change its annoying. How can they really do that?????:mad:

I want my news to be presented to me in a plain, matter-of-fact tone of voice. I'd hate to hear "22 people died in a train accident in Peru today. Oh, Jim, that's terrible, isn't it? Hold me, I need a hug." I'd never watch that channel again.

News organizations are businesses just like any other. It's their job to make their stories sound sensational, their videos incredible, and their scoops unimaginable. Otherwise, no one would care! You need to take their information at face value. On the other hand, I seriously doubt that you have significant personal interest in 99% of the news stories out there, so do you really care if they bend the truth slightly, as long as the real meat of the story is still intact?

[I am Normal! Hahahaha!]

My opinion on the news it that they blow things out of proportion. I can't stand for someone to go from something so tramtic to something happy. Why can't they wait until the end to tell all of the depressing things? I just think it's meaning less to do that. What if that was your loved one? That would make you feel horrible. I think it's just stupid and inapporiate.

[Zzyzx]

I'd want to know ASAP If my loved one was involved in some terrible accident. If anything, they should leave the happy, nonsense, slow-newsday stuff to the end.

[greyfalc]

I have CNN, FOX, or MSNBC on in the background at my job all day, and there is one thing that really gets to me. A man who had found his wedding ring was given five minutes of air time on CNN. That was it. He lost it, and, years later, he found it. How is that national news? Isn't there, I don't know, a world peace organization or something you could be highlighting if you needed a "feel good" piece?

[ThoughtShift]

If anything, the media can only under-cover things... The government always manages to find a way to cover their bare asses and shut them up.

Here's an example:

A few months back, some buffalo escaped from a local slaughterhouse and proceeded to graze peacefully in someone's front yard. When the cops showed up, they shot at the buffalo, successfully killing a nearby Jeep and the side of a house. After firing off 120 rounds from their semi-automatic rifles, 69 rounds of which went into a single buffalo, the police were finally victorious over the daaaangerous wild beasts, and all was well again.

Here's something to ponder... Apparently DOW showed up beforehand, and claimed that they were not allowed tranqs on "domesticated animals", and so the police had to shoot them. If this is true, are the police allowed to mow down runaway dogs and cats that make the mistake of hanging out on someone's lawn? If so, my Kitty-booperkins is never taking a step outside again.

This is not the first time the DOW and local police have combined their super-stupidity to screw up the day. Someone found a mountain-lion in their backyard in a thickly populated area. What was their solution in this case? Why, the patented CSPD "4 Step Plan to Gittin' rid of Dem Critters."

Step 1) Surround the critter, cutting off all chance that he will leave peacefully and flee back to his native habitat.

Step 2) Throw some stuff at the critter. Maybe this will help, maybe not, who cares? It's loads of fun to watch them squirm. Besides, if they run for it, you can claim they're attacking you and shoot them.

Step 3) After you are sure that the critter is hurt and frightened, inform the public that it is highly dangerous and must be "put down".

Step 4) Aim and shoot at the critter. If you do not succeed in hitting it the first time, try try again.

I kid you not, this is what happened. Apparently DOW said that there were too many people around to use tranqs, but for some amazing reason, lethal bullets were perfectly acceptable.

And I have one more example, though the police were actually decent on this one.

While walking home from the store, we came across a racoon walking in circles in the middle of the local park's field, broad daylight, middle of the city. We watched him for a while, excited to see a raccoon, until we realized he must be sick. We called the DOW, expecting a fast response. Nope. Apparently sick raccoons aren't worth their time. Come to find out, several other people had been watching him, and had been trying to call them all day. By the time we arrived at the park, DOW had been putting this off for seven hours. (6AM-1PM) SEVEN hours this little fella had been walking in circles, blind and sick. I finally found the number to a wildlife rescue place. She said that they weren't equipped to handle the situation at the moment, but she would call DOW and see why they weren't there yet. By now he's been walking his sad little circles for nine hours. This coon was so sick, you could walk up and stand within inches of him and he wouldn't notice. By then, there were also three other people hanging out, waiting, including this guy who pulled out a huge-ass knife and said he was going to "put it out of its misery". Ha. Randomly stab for your own pleasure, you mean. I hate people like that, and I told him that if he did anything to that raccoon, I would call the police. So what does he do? Tells me to just try it, and starts fingering the knife, glaring at me like he wants to eat me. So of course I feel threatened now, my BF has wimped out and gone to another part of the park, so I call the police. I tell them that there is a guy in the park with a knife, and I feel threatened. Isn't it amazing how it takes ten hours to rescue a sick raccoon, but TWO cop cars were there within minutes? They pulled the guy out of his car and searched it. Of course he left as soon as they allowed him to. They then picked up an empty trash can cover (They're like woode slatted fences) and put it over the little guy to keep him from wandering into the road and to give him some shade. The coon, not the knife-guy. THEN DOW shows up. TEN AND A HALF HOURS AFTER THE FIRST CALL.

Worthless.

Oh, right. I had a point... My point is, after all this stupidity and incompetance, the one and only place it is reported is the Independent, a local liberal newspaper, and even they receive trouble for it.

[Forum__Eater]

It's true, it sucks.

[this_is_bullshit]

It's true, it sucks.
+1 strikes again!

[Mourningstar]

You guys think that the media is bad where you live? I live in Canada and practically every major media outlet is owned by the same family. What this means is that not only do we constantly see the same articles (occasionally rewritten from a slightly different angle), but we even see the same advertisements from source to source.

Everybody in Canada knows this, but nobody does anything about it, and now all our information about the outside world (save for the American and British media) come from the same source. Creepy? Or is it just me?

[I am Normal! Hahahaha!]

I hate the news!:mad:

[da holly shit]

but really we wouldnt no so much about the world dat we do if it wasnt for da media so u really gt 2 thank dem in sum way n lack of education is da worsed thing eva it just turns ur naiv

[Evito]

Yeah 'holy shit' , lack of education is bad and that goes with spelling too!

Evito

[Zzyzx]

We "thank dem" by watching their commercials and buying subscriptions. That's all the thanks they need.

And Mourningstar: yeah, that sucks.

[normlman]

the news can only release so much coverage and then snap the government will shut it down because of the severity of what is going on over in iraq i have some friends overtheir and they have seen far worse stuff than they can report and they seen a camara man get wounded by his staff sergeant for shooting footage of one of our guys shoot in the leg so if you really must know the army and government has to shut these guys down sometimes because it is the armies place to tell that persons family what happened not the news teams and katrina was a disgrace to the government because there slow ass response time and i am surprised thay were able to show all that they did
hope i helped sicereley walt


..i just got out of the MarineCorp...>Jan 13< 'Honorably Discharged' with 2 deployments to iraq. the media softens the word passed on to the rest of you civilians so much, it's disturbing...you could'nt have nightmares of the shit that goes on over there. So the next time one of yous is sitting around getting upset with the 'FREEDOM' you do have..and you start to think you're beginning to understand it all. realize one thing. -you don't !-
since the 'Army' keeps going over there and sticking their dicks in their asses or on camera. >screwing the pooch< and treating a Wartime Combat situation in the most unproffessional manner, they'll keep sending the MarineCorp 'in' to set things straight..for god sake i've lost some of my closest friends in that shit pit!

p.s. Dave Letterman ROCKS!

[LARK]

The news is on for one reason to inform all of us of what is happening around the World.
The reson the News is full off Shocking Images and stories is that as humans we are shocked but intreiged in Death and Disasters.
Tell me this, if the news was to show only happy stories about how long some old couple have been together and who has acheived awards at the local University, how long would you actually keep watching?
Im not saying that these stories aren't important but the news station has an obligation to inform us on all Worldwide events.
Unfortunatly images of Disaster and Death bring in better ratings that pictures of nice fuzzies and those ratings are what keeps the Presenters in a Job. For example look at 9/11 how many people never turned on the TV to see what was going on, the entire world was glued to their TV sets because as humans we see all those images and yes we might be shocked and outraged at what we see but there is also a level of excitement.
So if you dont like what you see you can always turn the box off, go and live in a cave and keep your head in the sand, or you can enrich your mind and learn,and just remember " The children of today can change the future of tommorow by lessons learnt from mistakes made by us today".

[Lemming]

You dont just buy everything you see do you? You dont just go and buy everything you see advertised do you? So why do you just watch any news you see and presume its not crap? Dont just sit there and be feed... Go and find your own news, something reliable for a change.

[Zzyzx]

You dont just go and buy everything you see advertised do you?

Man, I was just watching TV, and I've got this overwhelming urge to drink some Pepsi and ask my doctor about Cialis.

Sure, the media might twist the truth, but hey, when it comes to the basics, ie: "explosion in godforsakistan kills eight", I'm pretty confident that eight people just died in an explosion. Do I need to know more? Nope.

CRUNCHITIZE ME, CAPTAIN!

[Please]

The media doesn't report the new to inform, they report it to exploit and make money. And you are right, negative shit sells. No one wants to see happy footage....sad thing.

[Please]

Being in the 82nd Airborne for quite some time (I am guessing longer than you were in the Marine Corps) working hand in hand with Special Forces and Marines.....the Marines I worked with would have to disagree with you. Bail us out....please...get over yourself. I would tell you about the many instances where the exact opposite occured in stickier situations than Iraq (not taking anything from you..appreciate your service) but I have way too much respect for the Marines that I served with side by side to try and get into a dick size competition with you and so would they. I am sure that the Army families of those who have lost loved ones would love to hear you say that shit about their family member who just got killed. Or maybe they should blame the marines for not bailing their incompetant soldier out of harms way.

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

Yes, they are in it for the money, but that doesn't mean that they don't inform you. Without the news how are we supposed to have any idea of what is going on in the world? Some of you say that we are ignorant of the issues because of the news, but without the news we would be COMPLETELY uninformed of ALL of the issues. Someone said turn off the TV and go find your own news? Are we supposed to fly to Iraq and Dumbfuckistan on a daily basis to learn what is going on over there, or do you just epect that we can learn everything we want to know about the world from wandering around our own cities and peeking into the ghettos we find there?

But I don't care to watch the news much anyways. It always seems to be the same stories of how some bastard strapped a bomb to his ass and ran into a cluster of American soldiers...or some related story and rarely gives ME any new information that I care to know.

[Please]

..i just got out of the MarineCorp...>Jan 13< 'Honorably Discharged' with 2 deployments to iraq. the media softens the word passed on to the rest of you civilians so much, it's disturbing...you could'nt have nightmares of the shit that goes on over there. So the next time one of yous is sitting around getting upset with the 'FREEDOM' you do have..and you start to think you're beginning to understand it all. realize one thing. -you don't !-
since the 'Army' keeps going over there and sticking their dicks in their asses or on camera. >screwing the pooch< and treating a Wartime Combat situation in the most unproffessional manner, they'll keep sending the MarineCorp 'in' to set things straight..for god sake i've lost some of my closest friends in that shit pit!

p.s. Dave Letterman ROCKS!

Being in the 82nd Airborne for quite some time (I am guessing longer than you were in the Marine Corps) working hand in hand with Special Forces and Marines.....the Marines I worked with would have to disagree with you. Bail us out....please...get over yourself. I would tell you about the many instances where the exact opposite occured in stickier situations than Iraq (not taking anything from you..appreciate your service) but I have way too much respect for the Marines that I served with side by side to try and get into a dick size competition with you and so would they. I am sure that the Army families of those who have lost loved ones would love to hear you say that shit about their family member who just got killed. Or maybe they should blame the marines for not bailing their incompetant soldier out of harms way.

[buttless_wonder]

Once you realize the news is a packaged, marketed product it becomes easier to ignore. Journalism went out the window years ago never to be seen again.

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

What's so bad about the news anyways? It may not be a completely accurate depiction of the world around us, but at least it gives us one more way to make our boring lives a little more interesting.;)

[hkdbadreligion]

The only news worth watching is the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Absolutely nothing else.

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

what makes them so great? Is the only good news that which is made humorous? Expand your mind some, you sound very stupid when making such absolute blind conclusions.

[hkdbadreligion]

If you are going to watch pathetic, melancholy reports of what's going on in America, why not watch people who make it a little entertaining and humorous? The other reporters are dull, mindless, robotic, and unsimpathetic. Why bother? Answering your questions with questions.

[hkdbadreligion]

You guys think that the media is bad where you live? I live in Canada and practically every major media outlet is owned by the same family. What this means is that not only do we constantly see the same articles (occasionally rewritten from a slightly different angle), but we even see the same advertisements from source to source.

Everybody in Canada knows this, but nobody does anything about it, and now all our information about the outside world (save for the American and British media) come from the same source. Creepy? Or is it just me?

Hey, You guys have the Naked News. Don't complain.

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

That's what many of us have come to expect when looking for news. Some people feel that it takes away from the meaning of the message if you make fun of something that is very serious. Needless to say, the other types of news are much easier to find, and you don't have to set your schedule to comply with them.

[hkdbadreligion]

Those two shows come on late enough for there to be no altering in my schedule.

[buttless_wonder]

The only news worth watching is the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Absolutely nothing else.
Do you know what the word "satire" means?

[hkdbadreligion]

Do you know what the word "satire" means?

No. Is it the spare wheel on an SUV or something?

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

No. Is it the spare wheel on an SUV or something?

It is the basis for a lampoon.

[hkdbadreligion]

Well now what the hell is a lampoon?

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

Well now what the hell is a lampoon?

it's a satirical insult!

[hkdbadreligion]

You took me seriously. By doing so I'd assume that you take everything Stephen says seriously.

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

You took me seriously. By doing so I'd assume that you take everything Stephen says seriously.


Okay, two questions: What the hell are you talking about?

and: Who the hell is Stephen?

[hkdbadreligion]

Stephen Colbert... of the Colbert Report... that comes on Comedy Central Monday thru Thursday... at 10:30 PM CT...

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

Stephen Colbert... of the Colbert Report... that comes on Comedy Central Monday thru Thursday... at 10:30 PM CT...


okay, I never said that I didn't take him seriously, but I also have never watched his show.

[silvery moon]

Hmm.. I'm actually making an assignment on the media for school, and my goal is to find out whether the media should be considered a 'monster' or an 'angel'
By reading some rather negative posts in this topic, I'm guessing most of you have already made up your mind about the monster/angel issue.. But another thing that I'm planning on doing is to write an article about "A world without Media"
So.. what do you people think the world would look like if we would make all types and tools of media in the world dissapear, from cellphones and newspapers to journalists and advertisers? Would we really be better off? Or would we all be lost?:rolleyes:
Cause many people seem to hate the media in here, but you'll probably be begging on your knees for a newspaper when all media is lost

[hkdbadreligion]

We would only lose touch with the other side of the country... making the country vary in each area and the difference might spark the resignation of certain parts of the country to form a seperate country... or not.

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

Hmm.. I'm actually making an assignment on the media for school, and my goal is to find out whether the media should be considered a 'monster' or an 'angel'
By reading some rather negative posts in this topic, I'm guessing most of you have already made up your mind about the monster/angel issue.. But another thing that I'm planning on doing is to write an article about "A world without Media"
So.. what do you people think the world would look like if we would make all types and tools of media in the world dissapear, from cellphones and newspapers to journalists and advertisers? Would we really be better off? Or would we all be lost?:rolleyes:
Cause many people seem to hate the media in here, but you'll probably be begging on your knees for a newspaper when all media is lost


You're throwing us into a pretty large extreme. Without any media whatsoever, I'd foresee society as we know it crumbling. Technology would cease to get better, and very quickly get worse until it became a memory. We'd probably end up resembling a 19th century civilization at best. The main idea that has been passed is that media needs to change, not to disappear. People feel that there are those who have enough control over the media to force the wrong message be passed. They think that this needs to change, take away controlled media. I agree, but it's hard to see how that will happen. At least when we receive the wrong message, we're still receiving a message, and can piece it together and understand things the way that we are most comfortable with. And society will continue to prosper and bitch about how things COULD be better.

[KepiroShitter]

The Q: is whether or not me JFK should join the Marines, I have nothing else to do, and life seems to be treating me like I am not going into the right direction. I want to go so bad because they pay for everything and I want that, plus I am ready to kill some Iraqis, tell me of people you know who are in the marines and what they are doing?

[silvery moon]

Your reasons to join the Marines don't seem very confincing to me.. Is it really your passion to kill some Iraqis? Don't do something just because you don't know what else to do. Keep on searching until you find something that you're really enthusiastic about.

[General Septem]

I can't stand the news and media quite often. All the articles are extremely biased to a side which I may or may not agree with, and especially in the case of this whole new immigration debate thing going on, they leave out information, too. Such as, it's not illegal to provide humanitarian aid for illegal immigrants; it's only illegal to employ them, help them get into the country, etc.

But no, people have to go on and on about "the immigration laws are so cruel" and the media doesn't break it to them that there's really nothing cruel going on, because they're making a fortune off of this and every other news fad that's been going on since the begining of the free press.

[silvery moon]

I have a question about the word "media"
I made an assignment about the media, and throughout the entire assignment I described the media as a singular. So I kept on saying "The media is"
But isn't "media" the plural of "medium" and shouldn't it therefore be "The media are"?
My assignment is called "The media: a monster or an angel?" and thus I'm trying to figure out whether we should consider the media a good thing or a bad thing.
But if it's a plural, then my title should be: "The media: monsters or angels?"
That sounds really weird ^^

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

I think you're right. To be technically accurate, you should use the word media in the plural sense. It depends on how picky your instructor is. Most people would not have any problem with it being referenced in the singular, and are more familiar with it being done that way.

[silvery moon]

Okay, thank you!
Unfortunately my instructor is very picky, and I'll have to change my entire assignment.. Any ideas for a new title? Cause "The media: monsters or angels" really doesn't sound right.. Perhaps "The media: good or bad" .. but that sounds way too ordinary.. What about "Should we consider the media positive or negative?" Nah..

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

How about "Media's Effect on Society: Good or Evil"?

[silvery moon]

Sounds great :D thanks

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

Awesome! Just make sure to list me in your references before you turn it in;) :D

[silvery moon]

Sure:D

Where I got my title from:
Some Brainy guy on some Bullshit Forum in a "I hate the media" topic

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

Sweet! I'll be the laughing stock of an entire group of students that I never met and never will! And I never thought I'd be able to pass my dork popularity beyond my own school system....:rolleyes:

[silvery moon]

Hehe, it's easy to do that :D
I once wrote a really dorky letter about me being addicted to chocolate to a paper that many people read in my country. And a couple of weeks later everyone was talking about that weird chocolate addict. Hehe, nobody knew it was me joking around. I even received some letters from people about wanting to interview me and giving me advice on how to recover from that chocolate eatingdisorder ^^
I don't even like chocolate all that much

[General Septem]

Well there's a way to get your 15 minutes ;)

I'm personally enrolling myself by-proxy in a local all-girls' Catholic school by befriending as many of its students as possible. I'm not even doing it intentionally, lmao

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

Hehe, it's easy to do that :D
I once wrote a really dorky letter about me being addicted to chocolate to a paper that many people read in my country. And a couple of weeks later everyone was talking about that weird chocolate addict. Hehe, nobody knew it was me joking around. I even received some letters from people about wanting to interview me and giving me advice on how to recover from that chocolate eatingdisorder ^^
I don't even like chocolate all that much


Yea, but I'm doing it all without intent. Just shows that I've got this whole dork thing mastered! Maybe I should start teaching classes.....