police beating ass in New orleans!

[rolling_trip]

see, I dont know who to believe because the media is all about shock and awe...they dont always protray the full story...you all should know that by now.

i'm with you. Just like when the hurricane hit, all the news wanted to show was the bad reports. Other cities where destroyed, but you didn't see those people being shown on the news coming together helping each other. It's sad that most people WANT to see the bad news, more than the great stories of people helping each other. Now there is news that Spike Lee is planning on making a movie about it, i wonder how bias it will be.

[AznTraitor]

i'm with you. Just like when the hurricane hit, all the news wanted to show was the bad reports. Other cities where destroyed, but you didn't see those people being shown on the news coming together helping each other. It's sad that most people WANT to see the bad news, more than the great stories of people helping each other. Now there is news that Spike Lee is planning on making a movie about it, i wonder how bias it will be.

well...Spike Lee is also about shock and awe.....it's a great marketing tool...but I'm curious on how it will turn out.


People are enticed by drama and suffering, which is why CNN, MSNBC, and FOX news will only show that. Very rarely will you get a feel good story, because they show you what is gonna get you pissed off and what is gonna make you sad. Journalism in America is so jaded now...it's not what information you can get, it's how you report it and how you can add somekind of twist or spicey detail that will make you stay tuned in or tune in.

I use to want to be a onsite reporter for CNN, but after interning for a few months, I lost my taste for it....I'm too honest of a person and I like to tell the story of how it happened right down to the details....but the most successful field journalist are the ones that can manipulate a situation and get more shock and awe value.

a prime example of a leading network....Al Jazzera. As small and po-dunk as they may be...they are getting more hits and more outside viewers than any other network in the whole world. It's odd that they always get the tapes of captures, and how they always get first hand footage of anykind of threatening messages that are meant for the US or Europe. It's because they report what they want to, and show what they want....instead of showing the rebuilding of Iraq, they show roadside bombs, firefights, and people dead on the ground.....