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[miriam_e]

Amazing! Just heard some news headlines and the things that the stupid mainstream media consider most important are the horses in the Melbourne Cup, a luxury boat catching fire, and someone stealing another boat.

No mention of the recent research showing that marriage and religion paradoxically worsen your chances of getting sexually transmitted diseases, and places with many sexual partners are safest.
No mention that NASA has decided to send another mission to the Hubble Space Telescope to do another repair job and further extend its lifetime.
No mention that SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) may be linked to some brain abnormalities.

And I wonder... we are the smartest generations in history, so why do the media treat us as morons?

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[satyapriya.livejournal.com]

When I tell my belly dance students to practice their shimmy to the 6pm news, I say: "Start with the weather, then gradually add in each of the commercial breaks. Then do the headlines, then the main part of the news, and finally the twenty minutes of sport".
Is it any wonder I don't watch the news any more, or read it? I figure the ignorance I suffer is about equivalent to what I would have if I watched or read the mainstream stuff.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I worry about that a little bit.

I don't watch the news anymore, and people all over the western world have lost trust in the news services and are not buying newspapers or listening to commercial radio (especially during the news) nor watching TV current affairs programs or news. That is probably a good thing because of the incredible amount of propaganda embedded in all those things.

The thing that bothers me is that if something truly important happens we might not learn of it as efficiently as we could because so many of us are not listening anymore. But as most of us use the net a lot I expect the word would spread quickly enough there, so there is probably nothing to really be concerned about.
:)