04-14-2019, 02:29 PM
(04-14-2019, 10:32 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-14-2019, 07:01 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote: Because today's media is unreliable. It's exaggerating or giving a false narrative a lot of the time. When you doubt the mainstream media you look elsewhere. I see the media as just a fear mongering industry designed to make money off of people's irrationality.
Please define "today's media", and what makes them unreliable. If your point is that all media make errors, then you can remove the adjective "today's". Reportage is not a science, and many of the sources reporters use have agendas that are deeply hidden and hard to identify. The good media will own-up to their mistakes, and publish corrections. If you're being selective and only eyeballing certain media, then you should identify which media you mean.
And on the topic of money: all media have to pay to exist, so saying they impure because they serve commercial interests is pretty disingenuous. Even PBS and NPR need to serve more than their viewers and listeners. That doesn't make then fear mongers. The world is already scary enough without media hype to pump it up. That's not to say that there aren't media entities out there that specialize in fear. There are. They do not constitute more than a fraction of today's media, though.
Do you remember the Iraq War? Where the media praised Bush to no end and made up the fact that Iraq had WMD? Do you remember the Y2K scare where there was this big frenzy and when everyone was talking about how the world would end? Do you remember how the media said there was this giant hole in the ozone layer from hairspray and that all of the rainforests would be cut down rendering us unable to breathe? Do you remember how the media said eggs were bad for you then retracted? How it said to eat all these carbs then retracted? How it pushed margarine? Do you remember how we were told about how we would face all kinds of biological and crop warfare from terrorists and how we could be done for? How now people are saying that climate change is going to make billions of people go extinct? How 24/7 news made people afraid and thinking crime rates are going up when in actuality they're going down and the media frenzy about how everyone is in danger? I'm only a Civic born in 1986 and remember all this.