Do you think the press reveal a series of doom and gloom, or they simply showing us the truthful facts?

Question

Thank you Bill, I'll look at that page when I get home this evening.

Cassandra

Answer 1

I think that it's mostly "doom and gloom" because scared people are easier to control.

Answer 2

Uh, not everything on the news is bad.

Much of it is truth.

They leave out much.

Your question is very ill-formed, as you give a nonexhaustive and non-exclusive pair of choices.

Answer 3

They want to make you depressed and scared. That way you are reliant on pharmaceuticals and the protective hand of big G.

Answer 4

I think they just point out all the negative and skip over most of the positive making us all feel dreadful if we decide to give it too much of our energy and attention. There has always been, and will always be, dangerous things going on. And there is always a potential for it. Shake it off and pay attention to the good things.

Answer 5

As soon as one sends out a news story one distorts it. And by not reporting important stories, that creates distortion too. The News is only ever meant to give us a flavour of what is going on in the world. It is rarely comprehensive.

Answer 6

I know they exacerbate the bad sides of things. Just a few weeks ago, we had Hillary and Obama here and the national news made our area out to be all poverty stricken and run down. They took pix of old abandoned buildings to show the nation, instead of going a few blocks over and looking at the new construction and refurbished areas. Our area was none too happy. HOWEVER...there are Plenty of stories out there that need no commentary. Look at what's going on around us. A picture is truly worth a thousand words.

Answer 7

The news is completely manipulated,  it’s designed by corporate media to do one thing only: to keep you living in fear. The media fancies itself a friend of minorities, it has become anti-semitic.

Answer 8

the dailymail does

Answer 9

They are liars and satanic worshippers. They twist everything. They never show the truth. Especially when it's regarding the war.

Answer 10

No, media is not being doom and gloom, may be on home news about finance, others they play down on it, such as food crisis, perhaps don't want to cause a panic buy but it does sounds to me that it's not our business, nothing to do with us sort of talk.

I have thus been looking into food crisis and what I found surprise me too.

Here's the page @

http://www.freeuknetwork.co.uk/Thoughts1...

Answer 11

it does get depressing, but thats society today, awful isn't it?

Answer 12

It really depends on the frame of reference and what is driving the media outlet.

Press as defined by the print media (the good newspapers is my frame of reference here) is typically insulated from ratings wars that can overtake the visual, televised media or the rags that sensationalize for the sake of an emotional reaction. The traditional newspaper reporter has a standard of journalistic norms that they're trained to and guides them. Having verified sources of information, as an example. This typically gives us a more professional, balanced approach to reporting (the non-editorial comments) that aspires to be neutral and unbiased and educate.

The visual media (TV) is driven by ratings and inherently (my opinion) lazy. Their frame of reference is skewed because of that and the reporting efforts (or "good" story) can get lost pursuing ratings or worse, pushed aside simply because it isn't "interesting" enough (which is a euphemism for it doesn't create enough viewer interest by sensationalizing or polarizing a topic).

I've seen many TV "reporters" simply take sound bites from authority figures and regurgitate it as "news", when in fact, little to no effort is put into really understanding and communicating to the masses what is really happening and going on. The sound bites that come out about our President's activities and his statements are a classic example. Basically, they fill up air time and tell us very little that's useful. Many of these folks in the media (particularly the visual media) are "pack animals". Whatever they hear, they regurgitate. I've taken to filtering most everything I read and hear and look very closely at the purpose for a statement from an authority figure or economic "expert" (as an example).

Are we in a recession? Everyone seems to think so. Unfortunately for those that share the doom and gloom, the economic data doesn't show that. Inflation is still low (in spite of the irrational fear driving oil prices well beyond the weakened US dollar). We have small quarterly growth taking place, but growth none the less. We have a bruised economy but we are not in a recession.

Sensationalizing in sound bites seems to be the norm these days and a quick way to get attention. It gets a reaction and short term interest, but doesn't educate in a way that's meaningful.

Answer 13

They play on your fears, I stopped reading the papers. x

Answer 14

It's much worse then the media even says it is.

Answer 15

The main purpose of the media cartels is to brainwash societies.

My 2 cents.

Answer 16

The press is an important entity in society today, bringing news to people who otherwise would not get it.

However, remember that the press is ultimately a business. They report what sells, and guess what? The public gets sick of happy, feel-good stories after a while. Because of this, the press sensationalizes new stories and reports only what they know will get the public's eye, all in an effort to improve their ratings. News sources also have a tendency to bias news in their favor.

Ultimately, much of what the press shows us is, at its core, true. However, the spin and hyperbole that have been placed on it can skew news stories quite a bit.