posted on February 27, 2001 07:47:33 PM new
If you really want to know how bad the press can be, go to a local meeting and then read about it.
I realize personal perceptions differ, but sometimes I wonder if there is not an alternate dimension where everyone occupies the same time and space and yet are somehow in completely different places.
posted on February 27, 2001 09:26:49 PM new
This will be just as endless a debate as those who hated Bill Clinton from his first day in office. Many on the far right refused to accept that a president elected with - what? 40 something percent of the popular vote was legit. They whined and stewed and hated - and Brother Bill was never to receive any credit for anything good that ever happened.
Now the situation is reversed and some few will always whine and stew over the reversal of fortune. Endless efforts will be made to whip up a population that really didn't give much of a damn before the election about either one of those two duds.
The Orwellian aspects to the media and the control they have over the population - who doesn't take the time to even TRY to make informed choices in many cases - is what is my worry.
Bush worries me
Gore - campaign motto "A valium for a tired nation" Worried me
Clinton was equal parts Good President and bad.
The media and their control over what you see and are allowed to watch - scares the bejebbers out of me. When it is hooked into power politics - a horror
Read "1984" again - and be very afraid.
"Crimethink" and its application is the nightmare
"Nutspeak"
[ edited by nutspec on Feb 27, 2001 09:28 PM ]
posted on February 27, 2001 10:11:35 PM new
It's because what news we do get is majorly filtered.
For example...look at how much press Saddam gets...and then look at what happened in East Timor, and how very few people have even heard of the country, let alone what happened there.
We hear what "they" want us to hear..."they" being about 1% (my estimation) of the population.
posted on February 28, 2001 11:57:11 AM new
<i>Press at work: http://www.consortiumnews.com/022701a.html</i>
Another interesting site krs, I loved their list of news stories. Maybe it's my imagination but there seemed to be just a tiny hint of a 'slant' in their list of hot stories
posted on February 28, 2001 01:05:26 PM new Reads like another Bush Watch, doesn't it?
The fact remains...no matter how assiduously that poor little fact is spun...that Gore requested a hand recount in the four heavily Democratic counties where he felt he had the best chance of picking up votes.
If that recount had finished in Dade, Gore would simply have lost much sooner than he did.
Reads like another Bush Watch, doesn't it?