Local News

[Sergeant Hustle]

Or any news, really...

But local news is so horrid these days.

Didn't a story break yesterday about Obama's passport records being accessed by state employees?

Why then, was the top story on local news about a stingray that jumped out of the water and killed a lady?

The second top story was about a rat coming up the toilet and how a local AZ woman is scared to take a piss now.

God help us.

 

[Lamberto Quintero]

The mainstream media is completely monopolized and controlled. Their motive is not to be objective journalists or inform the community of what's going on, their motive is to ENTERTAIN and to make MONEY.

 

[Sergeant Hustle]

Yea, man. CNN runs mad stories about Paris Hilton now. I remember when I was a kid the news was like Greek to me. Now it's like 1st grade math.

 

[kayvee]

Feds To Seek New Indictment Against Bonds
Cosco Busan Pilot Pleads Not Guilty
Los Gatos Bones IDed As Missing Oakland Woman
Thousands Of Bay Area Nurses Walk Out
Red-Hot McClinton Ends St Mary's NCAA Dreams

everyone's local news is different.


~k.

 

[Sergeant Hustle]

I must have had the cotton candy news on without knowing it.

 

[Lamberto Quintero]

Do you guys know who Edward Bernays was?

He was Sigmund Freud's nephew and he's the person that started the PR industry in the United States. Basically, the discoveries that his uncle made about the human mind were sent to him, and he used them to manipulate people into buying certain things and acting certain ways. With this basic fundamental idea, our media has been manipulating the masses since the early 1920's.

This is just a short summary, I suggest you do some reading on your own. What are peoples' thoughts???


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

 

[kayvee]

yeah if you study marketing Sigmund Freud is mentioned in a lot of textbooks and lectures.

my last marketing class skipped it becuase my teacher didnt agree with him becuase he related everything to sexual desire.

~k.

 

[Sergeant Hustle]

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind."

This dude is creepy.

 

[m.w.merlino]

^^^

And intelligent and more importantly, correct.

 

[Sergeant Hustle]

I don't think he's correct. I disagree with brainwashing.

 

[JoMoDo]

Kill your television.

I quit cable in '01, and quit the news in 02.

it's called the idiot box for a reason.

 

[Danger Manye]

any of you got a ghetto local news station, you know that will do the stories the other ones won't do. That cracks me up, the others are punks.

 

[Filthy Bay Ent]

I agree 100% that the news is bullshit today.. u just have to know which ones focus on fluff, and thats mostly mainstream outlets, not local.. (cnn/fox/msnbc) etc

KTVU is keepin it real..

-Train Derails, Causes Injuries To Four People
-Sheriff's Office Rescues Exhausted Kayaker
-Panel Seeks Emergency Declaration For Lake Tahoe Fire-Prevention
-Family Feud Leads To Stabbing
-Former NASA Engineer Admits To Accessing Child Pornography
-OC Man Won't Be Charged With Cruelty In Opossum Incident
-Supes Committee Waters Down Resolution Critiquing Human Rights In China
-Teen Who Allegedly Raped, Shot 14-Year-Old Girl Arrested In Sacramento
-At Least 83 People Arrested At Lawrence Livermore Lab Protest
-Judge Schedules Ed Jew Extortion Trial For July

 

[X_KaLiBa]

i sometimes watch the local news for just that - local news. otherwise, i'm usually watching the newshour with jim lehrer, charlie rose, bbc, frontline, bill moyers journal, etc. on PBS stations.

 

[enserio]

I agree with most of the shit said so far. My question (and it's a real question, not a smart ass one) is whether getting your information from newspapers or the internet is really that much different?

 

[Lamberto Quintero]

I agree with most of the shit said so far. My question (and it's a real question, not a smart ass one) is whether getting your information from newspapers or the internet is really that much different?

It's not where you get your information from, it's knowing how to look at it critically and being aware of bull shit. There's a lot of bull shit out there, so you have to take every news story with a grain of salt IMO...

 

[enserio]

Agreed homie, gotta run the internal filter on all that shit.

Trying to sift through the bullshit gets old after awhile.

 

[GTS]

It's not where you get your information from, it's knowing how to look at it critically and being aware of bull shit. There's a lot of bull shit out there, so you have to take every news story with a grain of salt IMO...

i agree, its when people take news as fact is when there is a problem.

 

[WHITE DEVIL]

I quite enjoy NPR and PBS news and programs.

Though they are still bs (especially on Israel), they tend to be much more informative than TV news, which is basically a joke.

 

[SRD420]

Really, the local news here just depresses the shit outta me, that's why I just choose not to watch it anymore. Its all sad depressing shit, either that or yeah... some stupid ass shit no one gives a damn about.