I do agree with your assessment that the media is biased. This is why I
try to look for facts when I am reading instead of mere subjective opinion.
The negative influence of the media is easily seen. People think about a
poor hurt animal featured in a special segment more than they think about
dying people, or their own lack of freedom. They think that other people
should be altruistic, even though they seldom apply this to themselves
(saints are fine, they are too busy doing "good works" to tell me how to
live my life, its the people who think others should be saints that I worry
about). Oh well, I guess the only thing to do is to start getting my news
off the net. Can anyone recommend a good source(s) for the latest breaking
news in technology, libertarianism, and economics?
Dan Hook
guldann@ix.netcom.com
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> Although there are times when the frustration of some members of NYPD
> expresses itself in unwarrented manners, the number of incidents where
> this actually happens are very few and far between.
> It must be remembered that there is an unfortunate tendancy on the part
> of the mass media to emphasize the negative disproportianately. The
> effect on an uncritical general public is invariably received in an
> uncognitive, and primarily emotional framework.
> Critical thinking has not yet become as commonplace in our cultural
> evolution as we would like. If the media persist in their de-emphasis on
> critical analysis and fail to provide appropriate and balanced coverage
> of daily events, lacking a viable alternative to these induced vicarious
> adventures, would not humankind respond accordingly in most
> instances?