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Originally Posted by soopaman2
Then why do so many folks take it at face value?
I don't buy something because the commercial for it made me laugh. Geico commercials are hilarious, but they stink for auto insurance.
I am more questioning our gullability, than the media itself. We foster this environment.
I bet some guys won't read Fox, others hate the NY times.
Because they cater to pre-existing beliefs.
I want some kind of neutrality back, we have digressed back to the Hearst days of yellow journalism.
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The problem is that people are not taught to analyze what they read and consider what interests the source and author may have so unless you learn from your parents or someone else that has influence to actually approach media analytically and read between the lines and digest more than one outlet
you will be ignorant and ignorance is bliss.
People are taught pretty much to obey what they read as fact these days and it flows over to the TV and web.I had one teacher in high school he used to say that TV was the raping of your mind.
Long ago during the Revolutionary War the literacy rate was as high as 98% Massachusetts had that rate back then people also read two, three even four different papers in those days as well so they where better able to analyze a given story.
"Almost every man is a reader," wrote the Reverend Jacob Duche in 1772. Duche didn't have to go far from his church at 3rd and Pine Streets, to find evidence to support this observation. "The poorest laborer upon the shores of the Delaware thinks himself entitled to deliver his sentiment in matters of religion or politics with as much freedom as the gentlemen or scholar... such is the prevailing taste for books of every kind..."
You know you can print anything you want in the US you do not need any special permission from any one of course this means that no review is done as to what someone is printing
or saying on TV it is supposed to be the responsibility of the person receiving the information to do that themselves.Only thing is most people don't.