12 Things That The Mainstream Media Is Being Strangely Quiet About Right Now

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Thankfully I live in the UK safety zone, away from any credible mainstream media

Thread winner right here!

It seems so doesn't it.

Not once you look at it.

Covered to an extent. None of the events listed in op are what you would call "covered", and certainly not updated.

Rubbish.
Take that MSNBC piece which is a workup of a NYT piece, both of which are certainly mainstream. See how often the subject has been updated since the cited article, then look back at the archives and see how many years they have been updating the story for...or should that be decades

Which ones?

Alex Jones is always an old reliable when it comes to crazyness, I wonder if he pops up

Yep, adverts on websites, hot diggity dog. Now there's a new thing.

The problem there being that those are the articles on the end of the world doomsday "newsoutlet" that is linked to in the opening article

I think the problem here FF is that you have linked to an article and are defending what it says without even looking at what it is claiming and the "evidence" it presents

edit to add, sorry I just noticed the source itself runs lots of panic buy gold now "news" articles as well as running lots of buy gold adverts, so it isn't just a case of it linking to dodgy "news outlets" it really is crazy one itself.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

I just noticed the source itself runs lots of panic buy gold now "news" articles as well as running lots of buy gold adverts, so it isn't just a case of it linking to dodgy "news outlets" it really is crazy one itself.

You know, i was going to retort with a big paragraph about gold-buying and the ins and outs of filtering out adverts on news sites, but, what it really comes down to is that we all have different B.S. Filter meters. And we all have different tastes in news articles.
In relation to the BS Filter meter, i'm indicating filtering out the adverts and reading the article, which you (allegedly did).
The filtering out of the adverts, you didn't.
In relation to differing tastes in news (worthy) stories/articles, we all have different tastes, without the adverts of gold-buying and impending doom of the world within eye-shot of the articles.
Well, that's that then.
Let me pose a question to you:
If the BBC were to have adverts of water purifiers and book adverts of the end is nigh and bunker down, the end of the world is coming adverts plastered around it's reputable and might i add very good reporting, would you dismiss the articles?
Or use your BS Filter meter (or rather the advert filter)?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

You know, i was going to retort with a big paragraph about gold-buying and the ins and outs of filtering out adverts on news sites, but, what it really comes down to is that we all have different B.S. Filter meters. And we all have different tastes in news articles.
In relation to the BS Filter meter, i'm indicating filtering out the adverts and reading the article, which you (allegedly did).
The filtering out of the adverts, you didn't.
In relation to differing tastes in news (worthy) stories/articles, we all have different tastes, without the adverts of gold-buying and impending doom of the world within eye-shot of the articles.
Well, that's that then.
Let me pose a question to you:
If the BBC were to have adverts of water purifiers and book adverts of the end is nigh and bunker down, the end of the world is coming adverts plastered around it's reputable and might i add very good reporting, would you dismiss the articles?
Or use your BS Filter meter (or rather the advert filter)?

Rationalize it however you want, but the majority of the kook conspiracy theorist websites (Prison Planet, Infowars, etc) run those sort of ads. When you see them, you know immediately what kind of website you're dealing with.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Rationalize it however you want, but the majority of the kook conspiracy theorist websites (Prison Planet, Infowars, etc) run those sort of ads. When you see them, you know immediately what kind of website you're dealing with.

Don't get me wrong, kooks as you call em' they are.
I don't belive in their bs theories and beliefs one bit.
Not trying to rationalize them.

You know, i was going to retort with a big paragraph about gold-buying and the ins and outs of filtering out adverts on news sites, but, what it really comes down to is that we all have different B.S. Filter meters. And we all have different tastes in news articles.
In relation to the BS Filter meter, i'm indicating filtering out the adverts and reading the article, which youThe filtering out of the adverts, you didn't.
In relation to differing tastes in news (worthy) stories/articles, we all have different tastes, without the adverts of gold-buying and impending doom of the world within eye-shot of the articles.
Well, that's that then.

Wrong, the problem is that the adverts about impending doom are carried on sites that are doing articles about impending doom.
So it isn't about filtering out articles or adverts as filtering out one still leaves the other, so either filter out both , in which case ignore all the content of the sites or filter out neither and make a judgement on all that is there.

(allegedly did).

Nothing allegedly about it, but what I can say without a shadow of a doubt is that you didn't actually read the article at all as it has been shown repeatedly by many people pointing out that the article contains all that is needed to show that most of its claims are either pure bull or crazy speculation from loony sources.

If the BBC were to have adverts of water purifiers and book adverts of the end is nigh and bunker down the end of the world is coming adverts plastered around it's reputable and might i add very good reporting, would you dismiss the articles?

If the BBC had articles telling me of the need to buy gold while prices are at record levels and adverts selling gold at even further inflated prices I would say that its articles are just bollox and its adverts are for real rip off merchants.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

If the BBC had articles telling me of the need to buy gold while prices are at record levels and adverts selling gold at even further inflated prices I would say that its articles are just bollox and its adverts are for real rip off merchants.

Now we are deviating into the realm of no need.
Firstly, you had an issue with gold adverts on sites, now it comes down to wether or not prices are inflated or if they are then it's a rip-off
Either gold adverts are bs or some gold adverts are ok, so long as you are not getting ripped off.
As to the BBC, you would refute the BBC reporting prowess and reputation and ie it's articles IF there were any of the aforementioned adverts?
Really? Unless i read it wrong.
That just proves that you are black and white in your view(s) about news sites and if the advertise or not.
But then again, i call news paper sites dodgy too if they have dating links on them.
Read your news article about Belfast riots whilst seeking your soul mate on your second monitor.