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re: Sherman's dictum.

ER — 6/3/2006 1:19:15 AM (archived)

The main stream media is a business, it is not in business to sell information or education, it is in business to sell advertising minutes or column inches. If the conservatives don't like it they have no one to blame but their own mercantilistic view of the universe.

The media gives us more information on Brad and Jennifer and Angelina, and Michael Jackson (when he was in season) than it does on real news because that's what it's marketing surveys tell it people are really interested in. Even now, we are fed a constant diet of inspiring stories about kittens rescued from rooftops and plucky special olympic kids while the world goes straight to hell. If you don't like the news, don't worry, it won't be long before there won't be any more news at all, and we'll all have one endless, beautifully produced infomercial to watch to the last syllable of recorded time. I gotta go.

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"Marines: Allegations undercut us" - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2006 6:00:42 PM
- Deja vu all over again - ER - 6/3/2006 11:53:59 PM
  - re: Eventually it will all sort itself out as the Lt. Calley/My Lai case did during the Viet Nam era. - Scott Evil - 6/7/2006 1:52:17 PM
  - A very reasonable viewpoint. - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 1:33:33 AM
- More careful consideration of this matter from Insty... - et - 6/3/2006 7:16:27 PM
  - re: More careful consideration of this matter from Insty... - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 9:04:45 PM
- Sherman's dictum. - ER - 6/2/2006 7:16:38 PM
  - re: Sherman's dictum. - gbaikie - 6/3/2006 12:11:22 AM
    - re: Sherman's dictum. - ER - 6/3/2006 1:19:15 AM
      - The New York Times sells political power. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 5:18:36 AM
        
        re: The New York Times sells political power. - SteveS - 6/3/2006 3:52:19 PM
      - Ian Sholes! - Fox - 6/3/2006 3:58:23 AM
        
        re: Ian Sholes! - ER - 6/3/2006 12:28:08 PM
      - re: Sherman's dictum. - gbaikie - 6/3/2006 2:28:17 AM
    - re: Sherman's dictum. - ER - 6/3/2006 12:28:06 AM
      - MSM = Main Stream Media - Mary Anne - 6/3/2006 1:00:16 AM
        
        re: MSM = Main Stream Media - ER - 6/3/2006 1:06:55 AM
  - So very true... - Donald - 6/2/2006 7:48:07 PM
    - re: So very true... - Lindy - 6/3/2006 1:09:26 AM
    - Ah you are such a nobel statesman! - Scott Evil - 6/2/2006 10:07:16 PM
    - As you may have noticed, it isn't really about Iraq for Donald. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2006 10:02:16 PM
      - You are absolutely right - Domald - 6/3/2006 2:58:10 AM
- Rape and Murder are OK with you? - Lindy - 6/2/2006 6:30:17 PM
  - I read the papers. - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2006 10:11:50 PM
    - Example of how "the papers" work. - Tom Brosz - 6/2/2006 11:11:56 PM
  - Where did he say Rape and Murder is ok with him or anyone else? - Scott Evil - 6/2/2006 10:05:43 PM
    - Yo! Evil! - Lindy - 6/2/2006 11:40:38 PM
- This is why... - Donald - 6/2/2006 6:25:10 PM
  - re: This is why... - Publius - 6/2/2006 7:17:24 PM
    - want to stop war? - Scott Evil - 6/2/2006 10:11:20 PM
      - re: want to stop war? - Publius - 6/2/2006 10:46:37 PM
        
        re: War is a continuation of politics by other means - Scott Evil - 6/7/2006 1:39:00 PM
        
        re: want to stop war? - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 6:12:47 AM
        
        Ode to a fat cat........... - Publius - 6/3/2006 3:21:03 PM
        
        Nice try. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/3/2006 7:58:50 PM
        
        oi vey, Techi - Publius - 6/3/2006 9:33:54 PM
        
        You know exactly what I meant. - SDAI-Tech1 - 6/3/2006 11:04:54 PM
        
        You know exactly what I meant.==no, but I do know what you said....... - Publius - 6/4/2006 12:34:54 AM
        
        So you have combat experience? - Scott Evil - 6/7/2006 1:43:19 PM
        
        Chickenhawk argument - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 6:29:04 PM
        
        re: Chickenhawk argument - Publius - 6/3/2006 8:54:01 PM
        
        "an effective swimming coach can only do his job, if somewhere in his past he has personally not been afraid to get wet" - Lindy - 6/4/2006 8:54:18 PM
        
        re: Chickenhawk argument - Tom Brosz - 6/3/2006 9:13:13 PM
        
        Can I quote Walt Whitman here? - Publius - 6/3/2006 9:39:05 PM
        
        re: Walt Whitman - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 6:33:50 AM
        
        Lezzsee, Poetry is gas in Broznian Newspeak.... - Publius - 6/4/2006 1:21:26 PM
        
        Great. More gas. - Tom Brosz - 6/4/2006 10:28:23 PM
        
        Should I swoon, are my posts really poetry? - Publius - 6/5/2006 1:01:15 PM
        
        Gas, cont. - Tom Brosz - 6/5/2006 5:56:34 PM
        
        Actually............ - Publius - 6/5/2006 7:28:23 PM
        
        Click the link. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/5/2006 10:36:52 PM

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