Ankh Morpork wrote:True, but who said we're not informed?
/Ankh
The arguments don't look very informed and they look biased, they look like the same arguments I have heard, seen and read a hundered times over. No one is quoting new information with sources to that information. It's just old information delivered in a way that suits the persons who is posting own political, religouse and moral leanings.
The problem with the media is that it's pretty narrow, yesterday morning here was a great example of how bad it is, given all the nations represented in the ongoing chatbox there was seemingly only 2 sources of news, it didn't matter which news site you read or in which country you were getting one of 2 news copies 1 seemingly sourced from the BBC and the other sourced from Rupert Murdoch (or rather one of his 184? news organisations) the later being more speculative but essentially the same.
We had people from 5-6 countries all quoting the same information and the same sources, were all reading the same thing over and over and this doesn't just apply to news media, books magazines they are all sourced from the same places, by the same people and this is very rarely being questioned (because people just don't notice?)
I read news sites all day, it's what i do, i read books i read news and i watch documentries and i do it lots and lots. i have 3-4 news sites loaded from 8am to 5pm, when i get home i have those same sites loaded and i turn on the news, i dont watch regular TV and i dont read regular books and I dont subscribe to any single line of thought (except trying to keep an open mind always).
So when I see a bunch of people discussing things I have been reading all day or week, or year, with all the same slants, angles and biases I know I am not reading an informed opinion, I am reading the opinion of a journalist author (or maybe even PR man) re hashed, yet again with a little touch of new bias.
I am incredibly cynical by nature I am loathed to beleive anything said by anyone in power, in the media and certainly not a forum, I try to source my own information and make my own mind up and I generally keep that opinion to myslef because it ends up being so ambiguouse it's scarey. We live in a very complicated world, these issues you discuss are being prodded and poked by very very powerfull people and organisations with very different agendas and it get's simplified beyond stupidity, if you keep an open mind and (try) to soruce your own information you will get very sacred about what you see indeed.