Are political idiots critical in today's society, concerning media manipulation?
816861
everybody has opinions\nthey are all like assholes in more ways than one
1087126
Jordan is an example of the simple minded punks that you refer to as well.  You are correct in the fact that people don't know the facts but want to sound informed.  Outrage is not informed and hatred is not truth.  This is not a true serious forum for political inquiries.  I asked the question,"who is Joseph Kony?".  No one knew and that didn't surprise me, but that smart a s s  remarks floored me as this man is the modern day Hitler in Uganda Africa.  Again, most here are not of a political mind I believe.  E-mail me if you would like to talk to some one who cares about real serious events of the day.  I don't know everything and will admit it but I love to learn.  And I think that's where most of our fellow posts here fall short, they don't realize they can learn here.  Good luck and I hope to here from you!
314944
I know you are trying to pull liberal's tails on your question.  I never voted in my life.  The thing is, politics in general in America is just a zoo.  All politicians are not worth my time nor respect.  So I try to live a life not needing government by making myself enough money to do as I please.  As far as I am concern, government and people in general are all corrupt in the USA.  People lie everyday, and the media is not objective but a medium for making money from commercials or whatever.  People do what it is they do for money for a better life, business ceos don't act ethically and by nature greedy fat cats, liberals are jealous and want a voice, everybody is just too loud and it makes no difference in my life, i ignore the whole thing but to laugh at libs and the rest of them.  I only support me, my kind, and my family.  I am a racist towards those that are racist against me, that includes all whities from Oklahoma.  See, I don't hide behind political correctness, it is another shame of the left, call it like it is and we all will be better off.  All policians lie, they have to in order to do their job, so life is a big B.S. if you keep it in perspective, all this energy is a waste, just leave me alone to my own resources, stay out of my way, and go suck your own problems for a change.  Good day.
76865
RIGHT ON POPS!!!\n\nI come here on a daily basis and I see all these posts made by the youth of this country who, through no fault of thier own, are victims of manipulation by the liberal media.\n\n"I hate Bush"..."He's (President Bush, I assume) is killing EVERYBODY (oh, really?)..."He's (the President, again) a liar!"  \n\nYou know, I don't even have a heart to get angry at comments like these anymore.  They're just parroting lies themselves, being spoon-fed disinformation by the media, who aren't even interested in un-biased reporting, but only interested in promoting their narrow interests, and will go as far as they need to accomplish their goals.\n\nI wish folks would wake up and not just willingly believe everything that the Big 3, and the rest of the liberal media tells them.\n\nAdded 1/21@1224 E.S.T.\n\nMs. Sparkles:\n\nYou've only reinforced exactly what I was saying.  Look who you're quoting...The Washington Post?!?  Please...talk about promoting an agenda!\n\nAl Gore lost the election SIX YEARS AGO...it's time folks begin to let it go, and get on with fixing the democratic party.  The dems and liberals at this point are really at danger of losing every bit of credibility they have...they already lost a lot to the likes of the Clintons and the others who are full of shrill rhetoric and hatred.\n\nWhen the democratic party and the current liberal hierarchy re-learn what true liberalism is about, that's when they'll get their house in order again.  The way things are going now...
988809
To answer your question, yes you should beware of them.  Everyone should beware the tools.  The insidious part is that they have so totally infiltrated these mediums that their falsehoods are being accepted as fact and spread as gospel when it is not just political propaganda, but false at that!
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They certainly render misleading media releases, though my personal presumtion is that that is more for their own benefit (e.g. playing down a story, playing up an achievement - anything to make them look good.)\nWhether a government as a whole (rather than an individual politician) would do similar to manipulate the market I'm not so sure. Having said that, I wouldn't put it past them.
427063
Youre Absolutely Correct\n\nYoung People Today ARE VERY IGNORANT In Respect To Politics\n(Among Other Things)\n\nScarey Thought-Makes Me FEAR For The FUTURE Of Our Country
921844
Is it solveable well it better be and this past election demonstrated how.  Show ALL politicians your screw up your gone and so is your power.  \n\nBut, come on take your blinders off reality is ALL politicians are easily manipulated by the system of special interest groups.\n\nLet's hope that was it was for our country's sake.
734997
Politics is not for decent people with self respect
326910
I'm sure there are and will be a lot of responses about Bush and what a horrible president he is, how if voting wasn't screwed with he wouldn't never have won and how tricked people into thinking it was okay to go into Iraq as well as forcing his religious agenda on the people.  I agree with all of that but I wanted to take another look at things. \n\nThe media.  The media today isn't what it used to be back them.  The media today seems to go for anything that will make a person look bad, which in turn riles the people into more hatred than in years past.  This goes both ways.  You'll be hard pressed to find a truly unbiased new station, paper or magazine now days.  They all have a slant or a spin they like to put on all things.  Unfortunately I believe the days of honest reporting are gone.  Instead, people look to Bill Reily like he's a serious news anchor.  People don't realize he's a 'pundit'.\n\nThe definition of a 'pundit' is: A source of opinion; a critic: a political pundit. This is not a real news person reporting facts, its a person reporting their opinion on a situation.  Yet people don't seem to realize that or want to look at that.  This goes for all others out ther with shows like his both conservative and otherwise.\n\nWhen people look at a sourse like that and see it as 'fact' instead of one persons opinion it helps to inspire anger and stronger opinion.  These things weren't around years ago for other presidents.  \n\nAnother think you have to look at with media is who owns the media.  Viacom and Clear Channel are owned by extreme republican christians so they limit what they show to their views.  This goes for your local news and other outlets so people aren't getting the straight facts like they used to.  This buts a conservative bias on whats going on in the world today and it pisses of liberals and it snow balls.  Then the liberals have to counter that in someway and it pisses off the conservatives and it snowballs.\n\nAdd in the internet making information available on demand and creating an network of like minded people who can get together and get angry together and you have quite the ugly and angry machine on both ends.\n\nI'm sure there are many more reasons but I think the media plays a HUGE part in it.  I just wanted to add in a different reason and outlook.\n\nThanks!
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politically influenced fool
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There is no doubt that what's left of the mainstream media has a systemic bias.  By definition, they see themselves as responsible for speaking out against entrenched power...the "establishment" if you will, and fighting for the little guy.  \n\nBut that's a misnomer.  Most of us don't see ourselves as some downtrodden "little guy".   And I don't want Joan of Arc arriving in my daily paper or on the boob tube to save me from God knows what.  I'll take care of myself, thank you! \n\nMost Americans are basically satisfied with traditional, established values.  And most of the time the media is rubbing us the wrong way by scratching away at the proponents of those values searching for their next Pulitzer.\n\nI for one, have no problem with aggressive reporting that says "the king has no clothes".  I just want it to be "fair and balanced".  If the king is wearing nice clothes, tell us so.  And if the king's enemy is naked, tell us that too!\n\nThey push a biased point of view and don't even know it.
694913
Excellent question!\n\nThis is a prime example that I have been trying to get through to ppl whom still believe the media is controlled by the left. \n\nWhile that used to be true, the media today is controlled very much by the right. \n\nThis conversion occurred after a vast behind-the-scenes movement of media legislative changes the Republican controlled Congress completed over 2 years ago.
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YES I am tired of this.  I believe most Americans are as well, which is why FOX news (Fair and Balanced) is growing in leaps & bounds.  They dont "spin" and editorialize every story.\nWhen a true thinking senator like Joe Leiberman comes back from Iraq and reports on the progress and good things, he is discounted and attacked by the media and those in his own party.  How pathetic is that??\n\nYou are SO right on with your comments!!
1089476
True,  but dont just blame americans only.  The entire world is ignorant.   In the middle east they listen to Al Jezeera (and CNN).  In China they listen to the "official" state run media (I forget the name, sorry).   Its a worldwide folly.   \n\nBut you know what is worse than that?   Polls.   People take polls as gospel, not realizing that pollsters have their own hidden agendas.   They can manipulate questions and results to make it say what they want it to say.     In all the years on this planet,  not only have I never been polled (on anything political),  but neither have anyone I know.   And when i ask my friends if they know anyone that has been polled, the answer is always no.     I dont trust polls.
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The media clouds peoples judgment by planting artificial "facts". Does any of us truely read the reports that decisions are made from. No, we merely listen to views from the media. Politicians are in their business for money as we work for money, not all are good not all are bad. I say drop the party lines and get a more independant politician to present moral views.
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To prove your point...they don't know crap.\n"Politically Stupid"