Local view: News media neglect real stories while sensationalizing supposed doomsday
December 19, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
The news media irresponsibly have sensationalized the Mayan calendar predictions. In the past year there has been a noticeable increase in news coverage, especially with regard to tomorrow’s supposed doomsday.
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” The news media are going to spin it whichever way creates the most sensation to maximize readership, viewership and profit”
As they have for almost 40 years since they turned news rooms into profit centers from community service programs. All media has shaped and molded this cultures perception of things and with very lasting effects from TV to newspapers to print Ads to movies. You haven’t even scratched the surface, you need to dig into social programming and subliminal messages which have always been used.
You also have to look at how media, especially TV is used as a programming brainwashing device. Consider that there was a propaganda effort by our government started 80 years ago that has continually and repeatedly told blatant lies for their own agenda and to get more money for themselves and that that for longest time the vast majority of country believed it all and many still do. I am talking just about Marijuana. But it also applies to the Cold War, our military spending, our involvement in mulitiple wars and military conflicts. We’ve been conditioned for a long time on many issues and is engrained in this society and manys perception of reality is actually molded by falsehoods.
Like said…you haven’t even scratched the surface but keep digging….challenge everything you’re told…seek the truth and settle for nothing less and recognize that whenever any effort is excerted there is always a hidden agenda…always. If you don’t see it right away just means haven’t figured it out yet.
“Those that can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”….Voltaire
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This lady is described as a senior at UMD majoring in graphic design and communication. I’m really sorry she has neglected to read the paper in which her column appears. She says important issues, like the murder of an ambassador is taking a back seat to the Mayan calendar. Actually, I have seen much more coverage of the ambassador’s death than I have of the Mayan prediction in this paper. And with the ongoing investigation in Washington, I expect to see a great deal more. I don’t know if there’s time before she hopefully graduates, for her communications professors to update her on communications. Perhaps she’d be better off sticking with graphic design.
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