Comments on: Great Television/Bad Journalism

By: Maryb

Maryb — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:01:27 +0000

Joe Emersberger, a Canadian and a contibutor to medialens, takes on a corporate hack on his reporting on Haiti.

http://canuckmediamonitor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=325

By: bozh

bozh — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:33:34 +0000

Don,
not to worry. If polls brought us an elucidation, private people wld never hold them. Polls are held in order to further confuse us. But i don’t think that scientists are paying much attention to what deluded or led astray people think in fields where only facts are taken seriously.
tnx

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:42:29 +0000

Well Bozh it looks like you are correct on not be concerned about climate change. The darkside won on the third planet from the Sun. I wonder if there is other life out there. The new’s

Lawrence Solomon: Global warming dead last in poll
Posted: January 26, 2010, 12:38 AM by Lawrence Solomon
Lawrence Solomon, Climate change, global warming, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, poll, public opinion
A Pew Research Center poll released today shows that few Americans consider global warming to be a top priority, so few that global warming came in dead last among 21 issues. “I’d like to ask you some questions about priorities for President Obama and Congress this year,” the Pew questioner asked the public. “As I read from a list, tell me if you think the item that I read should be a top priority, important but lower priority, not too important or should it not be done.”
The great majority of Americans (80% or more) considered the economy, jobs, and terrorism to be a top priority. Most of them also chose as top priorities a number of other issues, such as social security (66%), education (65%) and financing Medicare (63%). Fewer chose items such as reducing crime (49%) or addressing the country’s moral breakdown (44%). Near the bottom were illegal immigration (40%), reducing the influence of lobbyists (36%) and dealing with global trade issues (32%). At the very bottom was dealing with global warming (28%).
The verdict on global warming was even bleaker among Republicans (11%) and Independents (25%), who both also relegated global warming to last place. Democrats weren’t quite so dismissive — they considered global warming more important than three issues (dealing with global trade, reducing the influence of lobbyists, and dealing with illegal immigration.

Last year, global warming 30% of Americans considered global warming a top priority and in 2008, 35% did. In all three years, however, global warming came in last among the issues that Pew surveyed.

By: bozh

bozh — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:14:45 +0000

Don, yes,
Lying ab public affairs; i.e., our business, is legal in US. It is also protected by the constitution.
It is legal because, i assume, the fathers [what hap'd to mothers?] of the confederation knew that a lie is as powerful as a truth.
The ‘gentle/wise’ fathers knew that, i suppose, all previous great ‘fathers’ lied a lot.
But then who cldn’t have known that all priests and ‘kings’ ever do is to lie; along also ranting and chanting!
And we’ve had these ‘benevolent fathers’ everywhere/everywhen. And then came also ‘benevolent-wise mothers’ as well. However, both the ‘fathers and mothers’ now melted in one big smelly cauldron.

Don please don’t fret ab warming! It is going to be quite balmy in novaya zemya
and n.siberia. When the time comes to settle in extraordinary novaya and staraya [old] zemya, i’ll provides us with money so we can settle there!
But even if we shld fry to death, not to worry; the hell has by now cooled dwn sifficiently to suit everybody.
Meanwhile, i suggest no more babymaking but yes to viagra! tnx

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:55:49 +0000

I do Bozh in pure amazement in the year twenty ten. I think many of these talkers are starting to understand what they are doing is nothing but illusion of knowledge and a few know it’s illusion of knowledge but helps them get up in the morning.

By: bozh

bozh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:47:41 +0000

But when and where had privately-owned media ever gave us knowledge?
And i am using the word “knowledge” as folks us it.

privately made news, food, entertainment, etc., is private produce. Processed food being poisonous; as deformed amers and canadians prove, and manufactured news, as our warfare proves, a criminal activity.

I haven’t touched a paper or magazine for ages. I don’y listen to radio nor broadcasters. tnx