It’s all a big book of manipulation, plain and simple the American public is carefully guided

You’d never be able to get them to do that now. The media are just money-grubbing, egomaniacs.”

I think the media spins things more than you think. Back then the media would keep a story secret to help the “greater good”. In reality they aren’t helping anybody…the media is there to report events. If they collectively choose not to do this they are lying to the public.

Now the media spins things, which is just as bad. Look at CNN’s coverage of the WMD crap. They weren’t reporting anything….they were selling it. Makes you wonder why….

Anyway…CNN did all they could to convince the American people that invading Iraq was a good idea, look how that turned out. IF CNN had done their jobs and reported the events, we’d all be better off.

So, refusing to report an event because the government tells you…or spinning an event and selling an event as something more than it is….doesn’t help anybody. The media is there to tell the public what happened. If it’s good news or bad news, just tell us the news. Don’t try to sell it as good news when it’s bad, or vice versa. Just report the stuff, then shut up.
You’re right they are after the money….but where is the money coming from? Sponsors? Governments?

You’d never be able to get them to do that now. The media are just money-grubbing, egomaniacs.

So on the one hand, they’d sensationalize the unsensational if it would increase ratings,
on the otherhand, they’ll cover-up the biggest gov’t mistakes rather than act as a monitor as the founders of journalism intended.

Hundreds of thousands of casualties and homeless in the Kobe earthquake, interrupted for updates on the OJ Simpson trial.

CNN breaks the record for redundant ‘commercial and break free’ reporting held by 9/11 coverage for the death of Anna Nicole Smith.

I call American news ‘clonews’ because ABC, CBS and NBC can’t even help from reporting the exact same stories in the exact same order every night as if to prove the over-paid egos of the anchor-people right, that the reason more watch one than the other isn’t substance or variety, but who they like looking at narrating the story the most instead.

Remember, you heard it from me first, the term ‘clonews’ as in cloned news.

I’d expect the American media would cover up a radiation leak of the gov’t told them too, while creating and unnecessary panic in regards to something far less justified if left to their own devices.

I don’t criticise nor foreign news media for being propaganda or paparazzi-like as much anymore, that’s for sure.