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Jeanene,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff> My suggestions are if it
bothers you don't put yourself through the agony of putting up with it. I used
to listen to a lot of talk radio, for example Rush Limbaugh ( not that is is
totally bad ) & I quit about a year & 1/2 ago & we all
know his " Big story" except the media is out to destroy his
reputation & he ended up ruining it for himself. You are right about
the same old story & it being nothing more than
"entertainment", & I don't know about you but whenever I listen to the
radio or read something like that I get more depressed about how worse crime
gets, wars " stretching the truth" ect. But even so my real point is if
its talk radio, news ect. things get blown out of proportion or stretched from
what they are & it shouldn't be allowed to happen. I always thought
being a Journalist in itself would be fun, but what they <U>do</U> is
just plain wrong. Not only do they make stories bigger but they have a great
influence on a lot of people who are too dumb to realize their game. Am
I wrong on thinking that way?</FONT></DIV>
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great Day****</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Tolkien,<BR>I would agree
that our media is always running around looking for SOMETHING to keep them
busy. If it isn't truly noteworthy, much less newsworthy, then
SENSATIONALIZE it!!! I am SICK of our media. I have purposefully
not read a newspaper/ news magazine or listened to the radio or watched
television news in many months (it was sometime in the spring). I
occasionally read online newspapers but when I do read, I go to many different
sources to read the stories that intrigue me. I do peruse a couple of
conservative magazines a few times a year, but I have given up on hearing REAL
news that isn't slanted. How discouraging: we live in the free US
and can't trust our own "major" news sources. I began disbelieving major
media outlets when I saw that they all covered the VERY SAME STORIES in the
VERY SAME WAY. There was never any additional views, ideas or opinions,
never any varying subjects. Every network sounds exactly the same as
every other. That is NOT news reporting, that is entertainment.
And I don't personally find it entertaining. I am also aware that I am
being taught things through the television shows I choose to watch. It
seems that in every show (and sometimes even every episode) I am introduced to
an idea and every following year it gets retold and soon it is accepted to be
"truth". It is a bunch of bunk and I am tired of it.<BR>If you have any
suggestions, I am open to hearing them.<BR>Jeanene, a developing cynic at 45
in the Great Southwest</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Hey speaking of viruses
what does everyone think of the " Big flu thats worse than other years" ? I
think it is a big media thing, blown out of proportion, to sell flu shots.
Sure the flu is bad every year, but 2 years ago in the summer they talked
about shark attacks being high watch out don't go in the water too far at the
beach & blah blah & the ratio of shark attacks weren't any bigger than
other years, the only reason they were discussed is cause the media need to
talk about stuff & they blew that out of proportion. Anyone agree/
disagree with me?? <BR>Tolkien</FONT></DIV>
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