Wade
  • Wade
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14 years ago
This is taken from Gregg Easterbrook's ESPN.com "Page 2" column from yesterday...

Only Bad News Counts as News: Time magazine published a year-end issue whose cover was a montage of important events of the decade. Some 118 happenings were chosen by Time editors as the most important in the decade. Four were positive (sports achievements, an African-American inaugurated as president). Fourteen were neither good nor bad ("Pluto demoted to dwarf planet"). One was goofy ("AOL-Time Warner merger" was named by Time as among the world's most important events of the decade). One made you want to weep for the state of American culture ("'The Dark Knight' release" is treated as more important than any book, work of art or music). The rest, 98 of 118 events cited, were negative.

Really? Eighty-three percent of what happened in the past decade was negative? The Time selection says nothing about major positive trends such as declining international military spending (rising U.S. spending is the exception to the rule), declining teen pregnancy rates, declining crime, declining accidental deaths. "U.K. foot and mouth crisis" -- which harmed only livestock -- was cited, but nothing was said about declining cancer rates. "Shark attack" was cited, but nothing was said about the dramatic rise in living standards in most of the developing world. ("Overall, poor countries are catching up with rich countries" on nearly all central measures, according to this important new report.) Yes, journalists have always loved bad news, and have long pretended good news doesn't exist. But this is ridiculous.


And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)
Porforis
14 years ago
Nobody's going to get angry or anxious if you don't tell them the world's about to explode.
Cheesey
14 years ago
True.......bad news ALWAYS gets the attention.
"Fear" drives readership.
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4PackGirl
14 years ago
so people actually still READ time magazine...huh...who'da thunk hit?!?
djcubez
14 years ago

so people actually still READ time magazine...huh...who'da thunk hit?!?

"4PackGirl" wrote:


I canceled my subscription last year when I realized I never read it lol.
Wade
  • Wade
  • Veteran Member Topic Starter
14 years ago
I was going to start another thread, but since this fits the title if not the original post of this one, I'll put it here.

/rant on

I'm not a particular Sarah Palin fan, though I'd rather have her than Joe Biden as VP. (A pinhead MILF in heels beats a pinhead Northeaster career politico.)

But, I'm sorry, I just don't get the "making Palin responsible for the Arizona shooting" crap. I've reached the conclusion that the mainstream media's big problem isn't their liberal bias. Though they are. It isn't that they're irresponsible. Though they are. It's that they are just stupid.

As everyone knows, I pretty much despise politicians and politics. For reasons that I'm not going to bore you with again. (at least not in this post)

But when a crazy starts spewing lead in ways that kill unarmed 9 year olds, the blame cannot in any way be placed on a politician spewing its usual useless rhetoric. You don't stop crazies by "toning down public rhetoric."

Any more than you can stop a rabid dog by offering it a Greenie.

Every time I think mainstream "public discourse" can't get any worse, and decide to drop in and observe it again, I find I am wrong.

Pardon my Anglo-Saxon, but...

What a bunch of fucking morons homo medius yakkus is.

/rant off
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)
4PackGirl
14 years ago
i posted this yesterday on my facebook...

shame on every person, every media outlet, & every politician for making the tragedy in arizona their platform to say "well he said this" or "they said that".
they have no idea that what is said sometimes becomes the truth to mentally disturbed people.
until we learn a level of respect for one another, this country nay this WORLD is going down the tubes.
rise above people...rise above!!

now i happen to believe that stupid is as stupid does. (run forrest run)
these things get plastered all over the news & copycats come outta the woodwork looking for their 15 minutes of fame. they don't have the mental capacity or ability to understand that this type of 'fame' is not desirable.
if the leaders of our country cannot show a level of respect for each other then what hope do we as citizens have? this issue is on every side of politics & it's absolutely disgusting. this is all about personal responsibility & integrity - for ALL of us.
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