That headline makes me cringe. Media is the plural of medium, they do things, they don't does things.
Why Does the American Media Get Big Stories Wrong?
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
hmm it does feel stupid to ground oneself to absoluteness when everything around is relative.
what do you mean by that? Can you be more concrete?
> IT'S THE TRUTH.
I meant w.r.t stating that "IT'S THE TRUTH" statement in absolute terms. Apologies, should have quoted it in my previous comment to avoid ambiguity.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or The Guardian in the UK, which almost exclusively carries local government and civil service jobs. Obviously even this won't work with a Conservative (led) government.
Are you simultaneously arguing the Guardian is bribed by the government and that the UK is a "small country"?
Only the former. If it wasn't for government ads and Autotrader (owned by the parent group) it would have folded long ago.
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#45I don't know how relevant this is to the american media, but here in small european countries, media corruption is rampant: government agencies (in particular ministries) bribe newspapers and magazines with expensive ads in order to avoid the (rightfully) bad press and possibly investigative journalism.
Citation required.
here you are: http://www.viennareview.net/news/austria-briefs (just one of many similar cases)
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#46the American people, who want the media to rally around officials in times of crisis Bah. Speak for yourself, Atlantic Magazine. (Especially during manufactured crises...)
Of course he doesn't mean every single American - he's making a generalization. But kindly note that in the weeks after 9/11, fully three quarters of Americans supported a military engagement against countries that harbored terrorists - even, explicitly, if thousands of innocent civilians of those countries would be killed.
Don't even get me started. It was a manufactured crisis and the manufactured media response was yellow journalism at its best. There were hundreds of thousands of people out in the streets protesting that travesty of a fake war - which we're still hemorrhaging blood and money for - and yet the media drumbeat was always that the "American people" "want" the "media" to "rally around" authority.
Ten years later, I'm still experiencing a spike in blood pressure thinking about it. F*ing American Reichstag.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course he doesn't mean every single American - he's making a generalization. But kindly note that in the weeks after 9/11, fully three quarters of Americans supported a military engagement against countries that harbored terrorists - even, explicitly, if thousands of innocent civilians of those countries would be killed.
...fully three quarters of Americans supported a military engagement against countries that harbored terrorists... The problem is that Iraq wasn't one of those countries, but the media mostly supported President Cheney's^h^h^h^h Bush's desire to invade anyway. The American media is also hugely biased when it comes to reporting casualties too... every American soldier's death was and continues to be noted, but the hug…
"Seem"?