Can anyone tell me why these media trends have been happening?

dre_day4 · 2013-10-18T21:52:32+00:00

The news is educational fast-food. They come up with alarming headlines to get your attention. They profit off that. They also profit off the ads you see when reading/watching the news.

Want to know the truth? Read books (especially academic ones) and carefully browse the Internet. It will take years of collecting the puzzle pieces to understand reality. It's fun, interesting, exciting, sad and unbelievable.

Archwinger · 2013-10-18T16:07:27+00:00

Controversy sells.

I can't remember which news network did this off-hand (maybe NBC), but a few years ago (maybe 2005 or 06?), some news reporters decided they were going to put out a story about how horribly bigoted America is against Muslims post-9/11. They went to a NASCAR even in the deep south, dressed as Muslims -- full Arab gear -- and get this, the people were polite as could be. They even started getting obnoxious and bumping into people and acting ignorant. Still no rudeness or bigotry. Essentially, it was a "racism sting operation."

My point is that they'd already decided on the news story they were going to write, because that's the story that sells, independent of the actual news.

Nobody's going to be interested in watching a news segment that says, "Racism is all but extinct in America, and everyone pretty much has an equal shot if they work hard, except for a few isolated pockets of ignorant yahoos." But if they phrase that same story as, "Racism is still alive and well in America today -- take a look at these ignorant yahoos," it sounds a lot more controversial and exciting. Nobody's going to give a second glance to an internet article about women in the workplace that doesn't have at least some overtones about sexism, women overcoming it, women suffering under it, etc.

HatchbacksandTattoos · 2013-10-18T14:35:01+00:00

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2013-10-19T02:39:35+00:00

They're distractions from whatever the hell this govt. is trying to do. Ever wonder what happened to that Chris Dorner story? The guy got burned alive but no, the media has to focus on gay marriage and shoving homosexuality down people's throats.

Demonspawn · 2013-10-18T17:40:39+00:00

http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/cnn-exposed-emmy-winning-former-cnn-journalist-blows-the-whistle-cnn-is-paid-by-foreign-and-domestic-government-agencies-for-specific-content

AADisi · 2013-10-19T00:20:58+00:00

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pontifx · 2013-10-18T14:49:48+00:00

The media sells the governments best betting strategy to make as much profit off of you as possible. Ism's are designed to shame the storied offender group into shunning that behavior based off of emotional evidence. It's a form of herd control.

If you are curious about the entire us viewpoint I recommend metanoia's documentaries. They cast what we are doing in a negative light, but if you look past that you can see why we are still number one lol

'MERICA

edit: up for 26 hours mistakes have been made

virviri · 2013-10-19T08:11:41+00:00

I stopped waisting my time on news. I still know about everything important happening around me, if something is important people will always tell you about it, the best part they filter out the bullshit for you.

You don't waste time on misinformation and you don't get upset by the fake issues like "racism" or "sexism" they are trying to force-feed you.

Try it for a month, you will soon realise that nothing affecting your life was reported during that time.

virviri · 2013-10-19T14:04:14+00:00

Thank you /u/HatchbacksandTattoos your rant (and an earlier comment I made in here) inspired me and I decided to write about why I went on a news free diet.

http://virviri.com/news-free-diet/

wakeupzombie · 2013-10-20T18:56:46+00:00

It's been building up for as long as I can remember. By slowly turning the tide against the "privileged," a demographic is disempowered, replaced by a less experienced and easier to manipulate group.

Title	Can anyone tell me why these media trends have been happening?
Author	HatchbacksandTattoos
Upvotes	3
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Date	October 18, 2013 2:19 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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