I agree with your conclusion, but I can't explain how it continues to perpetuate.VMI77 wrote:It seems to be dying and I certainly hope it is. I didn't intend to suggest our media is driven by a single motive. I agree that sensationalism is a factor and it may even be the predominant factor. However, there are also consistent, repeating, and long running "messages" promoted in our media, by people who are largely of like mind, and who revel in the belief that they are the self-appointed agents of social change.
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- Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:11 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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- Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:05 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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I think that it has more to do with just selling newspapers. The print newspaper business is dying. One of the ploys that they use to sell more papers is to print "sensational" or "controversial" headlines and stories. The same strategy has been used, with some success, for decades.VMI77 wrote:Not really. They print it precisely because it's what their audience wants to hear. They don't care what people like us think. This unrelenting propaganda slowly takes its toll and advances the authoritarian agenda.Dave2 wrote:Off topic... Why people print stuff like this? It just gives the publication as a whole a bad reputation.
- Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:22 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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In private, he might. He might also tell you that he's laughing his head off that he has the power to get this stuff printed in the Kansas City Star and get paid to do it.chasfm11 wrote:I'd be willing to bet that the author of the article would be the first to agree that there is no logic in the thinking for the article - and he probably would be proud of that.Dave2 wrote:The article is a stream of logic fails. I'd have to go back and double-check, but I believe every point is obviously wrong.
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:26 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
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Check out the author of the editorial LEWIS W. DIUGUID. He has written a lot of these types of articles. He has even written a book. I wonder if the circulation of the Kansas City Star is down in the dumps, like most newspapers.Dave2 wrote:The article is a stream of logic fails. I'd have to go back and double-check, but I believe every point is obviously wrong.
Off topic... Why people print stuff like this? It just gives the publication as a whole a bad reputation.
The main thing that angers me about this post is that the Austin paper actually reprinted this garbage.
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:06 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: Gun violence as a "civil rights" issue
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That is really crazy.This long overdue accountability would track with court rulings on segregation. Justices in the 1954 Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education ruling ended legal segregation. The courts afterward forced states such as Missouri and school districts such as Kansas City to pay to repair the damage caused by years of government-backed discrimination and segregation.
Following this logic "separate but equal" should mean that the government should be forced to buy better guns for the people who can't afford them.