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02-09-2008 10:29 AM #7
You see the slant on a "story" that the people manufacturing it want you to. They use certain editted video sequences and sound bites to portray what they want to. The tone and inflection of verbiage is employed to subliminally make you prejudiced to whatever point of view they set out to make.
We don't see the same stuff that Europe sees and vice versa plus different narration and dialogue accompanies things. Stories are "spun" differently for the intended market. It's just they way an pickup truck is marketed- a workhorse that can take it or a comfortable, safe cruiser for your family. That's how they warp the news to say what you finally hear.
In the West news became part of network ratings strategy decades ago. It's all about the sponsors' money now and ratings versus other news shows instead of a simple service to broadcast the news as it once was. It's nothing but a dog and pony show.There is no substitute for cubic inches





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