Have you ever noticed that we are continually kept in a state of fear and high anxiety by the media !?
Are we being manipulated and controlled by government/big business?
This scenario is just the opposite in Canada where the positive is looked for first!
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I believe this is a good question and I have a concern that the constant unending fear mongering is actually numbing us to the threat of another attack, instead of making us more prepared for it.
Fear: Something that should be metered out sparingly.
Our media only likes to report the bad things. I think the reason is they probably figure no one would watch the good. I don't watch the news at all & if they would just tell the truth & it wouldn't be just on sided I would probably watch it more often.
Dry Laundry sells, good news swells.
You've been watching Michael Moore's 911 haven't you? I agree with what he said in the movie about media induced fear and anxiety. I don't watch the news.
I watch the news every night and all the news is bad. We have flooding in Texas and drought in the mid-west. What is going on Susan?
Fear sells
We are also kept in a state of feeling like we're missing out on life for not buying every product advertised!
It is very true what you say but few people are smart enough to understand it. Free press means what the media decides they want to talk about. And so we are fed that.
Wow, do I hear you there! This is my biggest gripe against the media. We're continually bombarded with doomsday newscasts (e.g., global warming and the bird flu pandemic, neither of which has ever been proven to be a threat). Then somewhere not long down the road, the "powers that be" admit that they've "discovered" that there really was nothing to worry about in the first place. But we never seem to learn that these people can't be trusted, no matter how many times they play on our fears, and so the public keeps jumping on the fear wagon, even when the same people who've previously misled them are behind the new stories.
Personally, I wonder if the media pushes fear in an attempt to convince the public that we really need them and our government. After all, if there's nothing really big to fear, why do we need them in the first place? So yes, I think the fear-mongers really ARE out to control and manipulate.
Answer # 2, except I think he meant dirty laundry. If you are concerned stop watching the news. I did long ago. : )
sounds to me like the drug companies are taking an opportunity in placing their ads next to the news or whatever it is your watching.
I'm not from america and it's a bit obvious that over here that the government are using scare tacktics and others to herd the people.
To quote '1984' (The book) "Ignorance is Strength" right now I can't remember the other two
You noticed this, huh? : )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/big_lie...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/culture_of_...
Hooray for Canada. Yes I have noticed. It is disgusting. I have a friend that has been given 6 months to live. All of the drugs ordered to presumably help her health did just the opposite. Unfortunately there are many more people who have or will go through the same. Many of them have not survived and will not. All in the name of revenue.
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