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But this is all biased interpretation anyway ont he parts of AL and WG.
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You dismiss my point far too quickly. I don't mean just to say that i think you're reaching with your statements. I mean also that it is a normal impulse in people to want to see what they think is important given more weight.
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Some people want other things to get more reporting. That its reported isn't the question, as AL said. Its about it not being given the weight that some think it deserves. And why? Must every publication put every atrocity around the world front and center?
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Can't speak for others but I never said that.
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Originally Posted by AL
That doesn't mean they're unreported, although that, too is often the case.
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You said both so lets split the difference.
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And if you feel the need to have the population so carefully controlled in their thought impulses then you have an odd argument on your hands, but that I don't suspect is what you mean, AL.
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But it is the other way around. Much of the west has been made numb and ignorant by major media that has many times twisted the truth and subdued facts.
I'll finish here.
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Again I'll point out that if people wanted to care they'd find the correct unbiased information. I assume that you know what they don't because you found reliable sources. I don't suspect that you do your own journalistic digging every day to learn everthing. Surely you aren't at the sight of every terrorist attack in the Islamic world or everywhere else that sees one too.
Ignorance in adults is a choice. Children learn from their parents. The information is present enough to give people a chance to know about it. News as a rule is general and if you want more you dig (like turning to A16 to finish the remaining 3/4 of the article from the front page).
Some people tell me politics are boring, that they dont vote cause they don't care. It doesn't matter which paper they read or who wrote it. They don't care. And if they want to persist in thinking twisted versions of reality then they will. We live in the computer age. Theres the information in most anyones home or at the library.
I'm not saying that journalistic integrity isn't an issue, but if we really cared then we'd make it harder for corporations to buyup every news outlet and dilute the stories into easy to hear unboring exiting drivel.