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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#000080>Jeanene</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I have to agree with you, the news is for entertainment
only.We no longer get the facts. How about the MAD COW SCARE. We aren't hearing
much about that. At lease not on the Ease Coast</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Dave </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>PA</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=sdmheit@verizon.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [GCFL-discuss] Media hype</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 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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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 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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