sentence ... too ... long.

We can't just blame the media alone for not telling the truth -- we've got to face the fact that audiences are paying to hear those lies.

^^smitty should have just c/p'd the article's subtitle^^

There is a difference between wanting to be lied to, and not wanting to hear a long, complicated spiel about how things really are. This is why Fox News gets higher ratings than CNN.

Don't like it? Invent a pill to give people longer attention spans.

Summary: Iran is ok.
Subtext: The great jewish conspiracy controls all media in the wet.

brazil: wet.

west.

I truly didn't ask for either.

liberal media = cheap cop-out

Plato figured that out 2500 years ago...

der!

DRTFA

While the headline kind of tripped over itself, it's nonetheless true. In a general, overarching sense.

Lemme see, I stopped buying Starbucks coffee five years ago. They didn't cease to exist. Where are your platitudes, now dumbassmitter.

I hear there's a book coming out on this very subject.

Its not that the media is necessarily lying to the public, its that they will show you whatever it takes to get you to watch their show, read their magazine/newspaper, listen to their station. The more people tune in, the more money they make.

Media that makes a profit is not news, its infotainment and should be watched only with that under consideration.

The truth? You can't handle the truth!

I'd like the media to start talking dirty to me.

the author's six or however many paragraphs about Ahmadinejad's mistranslated statement is pretty hair-splitty.

yeah it was not what he said, but you can't tell me that him saying "The regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the pages of history" was really that far in actual meaning from the mistranslated version ("Israel must be wiped off the map").

i'd go further and say his actual quote is in fact more hateful than the misquote.

Wombatzu Plato figured that out 2500 years ago...

Ding Ding Ding!!!!!

/I work for Plato's cave, so I'm really getting a kick....
//I do work for a local news station and love telling people how everything in the media is a complete lie.

The truth? You can't handle the truth!

Say, I heard that in a mail drum somewhere on teevee this weekend...

I recognized this pattern last year, when The New York Times addressed the fact that, despite having been quoted as saying "Israel must be wiped off the map" by every man, woman and child in the United States over the past year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a frequent victim of deliberate mistranslation, never actually said that. A correct translation, according to many native Farsi speakers, goes something like, "The regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the pages of history," and was a direct quotation of Ayatollah Khomeini.

So there's a super big idiomatic difference between "wiped off the map" and "wiped off the pages of history?" Good luck on the pedantic bullshiat, Mahmoud.

DRTFA
Headline says it all.
SO for no apparent reason,
I'll break out into song.
No, not in the ghey way,
In the spirit of no farking apparent reason.
ok?
Which brings us back to
fark.
a site.
an awesome site
digg.
a site I've never seeeeeeeen.
Google.
A name.
I'd call my self,
If I had a mountain loaad of dough.
Ebay, a lot of farking spaaam.
Youtube,
a site with bands that Jaaaaaaam.
Popcap.
You kept me farking sane.
When I'm sick or pinned down in the raiiiiiiin.
S.G. your mug shots make me laugh.
MSNBC.
You got a lousey staaaaaaaaaf.
Which al brings us back to
MSNBCSGPCTYEBGe Deeeeeeeeee Eeeeeeeeeefffffff
Faaaaarrrrrrrrrrk!
/the arrestocrats.
//'cause I couldn't get arrested in this thread.
///Mind you hats and coats, ladies, and gents.

FTA: ... paying to hear those lies.

Ethics, you son of a biatch. Because someone asks to be lied to, pays to be lied to, you should lie to him? What about if he asks to be mutilated? Killed? Or are you just too damn greedy to give the truth, even if it hurts your bottom line?

Where is your morality now?

smitty needs too have a to/too lesson, to

All politics, debates, and ethics aside, only one thing is certain: subby has committed a homonym atrocity

Niveras:
Or are you just too damn greedy to give the truth, even if it hurts your bottom line?

There used to be a law that TV stations had to show they were helping their community. They did this by offering unbiased news and educational content.

Then the major networks paid a lot of money to get that law removed.

The public wanted to be raped. Just look at that dress we were wearing.


We were asking for it.

"Power don't come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying! Lying big, and gettin' the whole damn world to play along with you!"

/obvious

Fox news:
The forth branch of government?