Role of the Media in the Trans-Atlantic Relationship

[Kapitan_Phillips]

God I thought you were going to talk about person to person trans atlantic relationships :rotfl:

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

God I thought you were going to talk about person to person trans atlantic relationships :rotfl:

A: "Damn lefty...!"
E: "Damn warmonger...!"
A: "Unthankful weakling!"
E: "Selfish gangster!"
A: "Silly babble-club!"
E: "Bigmouthed cowboy!"
A: "Idiotic socialist!"
E: "Capitalist predator!"
A: "I hate you...!"
E: "No, I hate you...!
E2: "No - we hate you...!
E3: "Well... do we?"
E4: "The question is... should we?"
E5: "Please don't you talk in my name."
E6: "but we need to talk united."
A: "Ha! You and - united...! :rotfl: "
E: " We hate you!"
E7: "Well, actually I do not."
E8: "Shut up."
E9: "Be sensible, guys."
E10: "Be supportive, guys."
E11: "Correct. Politcally, I mean."
E12: "I'm hungry."
E13: "I'm thirsty."
E15: "Let's go grilling."
E16: "It's not called grilling, it's called barbecue."
E17: "With TV transmission of rodeo."
E18: "With cowboys?"
E19: "yep. bigmouthed ones."
E20: "And huge steaks."
E: "Huuuuge steaks."
A: "Ten dollars the piece!"
E: "Twelve!"
A: "Eleven!"
E: "Deal!"
A: no comment
E5: "Don't you talk in my name, please."
E8: "Shut up!"
E5: "No!"
E8: "Yes!
E5: "No!"
E8: "Yesyesyesyesyessss...!"
E21: "Oh please..."
E22: "All this only because of the Americans."
E23: "And their damn barbecues."
E24: "Not to mention their awful rodeos."
E25: "Not much they can beyond that."
E16: "We don'T want no stinking barbecue."
E7: "Actually, I would."
E8: "Shut up."
E15: "It's not a barbecue, it's grilling."
A: "Oh look what they are doing to our beautiful barbecue!"
A: "Uah... they grill mixed pickles, no steaks! "
A: Aaaah... it smells awful...!"
E: "You don't know what is true haute cuisine."
E18: "You'r just a damn cowboy."
E19: "A bigmouthed cowboy."
A: "Degenerated grill-club!"
E: "Steak-thief!!"
A: "Steak-thief...? "
E: "All capitalist predators are stealing thieves!"
A: "Idiotic socialist!"
E: "Selfish gangster!"
A: "Damn lefty!"

[Yahoshua]

Personally I'd prefer if reporters here followed the same European outline of newspapers according to the point of view it is reported from.

Eg. Communist paper, Unionist paper, Republican paper, Democrat paper, etc.

It'd resolve all the "fair and balanced reporting" bs that we have to put up with when we can figure out the agenda of a reporter or news agency within a series of articles quite easily.

And I'd also like to see more transparency within the news organizations themselves and have a requirement for basis of "fact reporting" as opposed to this "celebrity reportiong" that I'm so tired of. I'm finding too many "fair and balanced reporting" articles being passed off as news when they are in fact opinionated articles with no real meat to the story.

I also want to hear more positive stories on the news. All the "doom and gloom" is both dangerous by crying wolf too many times, and desensitizing the public from real dangers that exist and atrocities that are occurring.

Thos are my 2 cents.

[Iceman]

Good Article and good points by all...I agree in that media corporations have an intrest in "Playing Ball" probably more so than ever in history...reason I think this is only because of working for the local cable co. here in AZ Cox Cable....in my 10 years here I have yet to see one negative thing reported about the home company...ever....I see nothing but propoganda in favor of it and almost to the point of making me sick and I work for em. I mean it is a really good company but everyone farts...no one human is perfect and we all have problems...companies and governments alike and to think otherwise is silly and dangerous....not sure there is a solution but do thank God really for the internet and the ability to read from media from Iraq to Kalamazoo to North pole to South and make my own decisions still.