All this new technological advances are great, but how do think it affects children as they watch the war live through their own television set? How do you think it affects the children that have a parent or a family member at war?
any organization that supposedly desires to communicate/educate the masses is going to lean to the left - it is inherent in any mass communication. conversely, virtually every big business in america, and the world, is going to be right-leaning. look at the population that each one serves and you will see an ulterior editorial running through each organization, be it intentional or not.
i believe that it's impossible to be perfectly objective. the big problem with america is that everyone settles for sound bytes which makes all biases in mass communication virtual fact. very few people are going to balance the LA Times and CNN with the BBC, Al-jazeera,and other, non-American news oulets.
there is a large liberal bias in the media unless you watch fox; indeed, conservative talk shows have sprung up over the last couple of decades in response to that bias. that being said, during war the liberal bias pales in comparison to the pro-government bias. if society accepts slanted bits of information, then it deserves whatever repercussions come of it.
I agree with Joe: The media is essential for news, but it is severely biased to the left. How come the largely socialist/anarchist protestors were protrayed unconvincingly by the media as normal people (when they were largely part of a fringe, extremist movement), while the pro-life protestors in Washington were protrayed negatively, if even shown? Because the media is biased to the left.
Why can you NOT get Bill O'reilley's ultra-right wing talkshow in some parts of the country by cable providers? Because the media is liberal. How about how gun control, abortion, immigration, the economy, health care and other issues are almost always shown in a liberal light? How about how colleges tend to have leftist academics while discouraging or even censoring anything that deviates from left-wing ideologies? Don't believe me? Go to the Media Research Center on the web, or read Bias (by a liberal no less!) or any other serious study or book on the media and you will find that overwhelmingly it is tilted to the left. It isn't fair for anyone when bias happens, no matter what their views are. The news should be presented factually, not as some cheap sensationalist leftist editorial. If I wanted that sort of coverage, I'd go out and buy a copy of the Daily Worker, not watch CNN.
Thinker, you obviously didn't think before you wrote what you said.
War is big news, and believe it or not, reporters and journalists cover the news.
So this "live-reporting" that you don't think is right is actually the only way we can actually see what's going on.
I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I would like to throw bricks into my television screens after hearing commentators and the Big Three nightly news henchmen inject their liberal tones into reporting a simple news story.
State the facts and move on -- if I wanted to hear or read about someone's opinions on the war, I would have turned to the editorial page.
But, the mainstream media is only doing what it's being controlled to do.
As far as war itself, though...it's big news. BIG news.
People like me -- i.e., reporters -- depend on NEWS to well, be reporters.
Without news, you have no reporters. Without reporters, you have no news.
I don't think the media is a good thing. They don't have the right to be in the big middle of things "reporting live." It's not right. News reporters and officials here sit and come up with assumed explanations and try to guess at what our military is doing. It's not their job, and honestly, I don't think we need to know every step they take, and we definitely DO NOT need to see it as it happens.
Ok First of all What age are we talking about? If were talking about little kids then why does it matter? Their so little they wouldnt understand anyway. And even if they did, the only way theyd be watching the news is if their parents let them so it would be their parents fault. Otherwise, little kids dont watch the news.
Maybe watching the news all the time might be bad for little kids, like how after the attacks on Sept. 11 many young children had post-traumatic stree syndrome. But wouldn't it be worse if they didn't know (or for that matter, care) about what was going on in the world?
what pissess me off is the way that every time anything happens in the war the media makes it sound like its the peek or something. I think a lot of gullible americans take these reports to heart and it breeds fear.
I don't think that it's such a great idea that kids are able to watch the war [to some point] right from the radio, the tv, etc. It's just wrong that they are able to come in contact with the war when it's the same thing we try to take out of society.
Like I said on another post, I think it’s disgusting how the electronic media is sensationalizing the war. I mean come-on it feels like you’re watching a sporting event the way they show it.
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I don't think that it's such a great idea that kids are able to watch the war [to some point] right from the radio, the tv, etc. It's just wrong that they are able to come in contact with the war when it's the same thing we try to take out of society.
