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US media censorship?

  • 01-05-2010 2:27am
    #1
    northwest100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭


    So, there was a protest on wall street yesterday.. an anti-bank rally by approximately 10,000 people which you'd think was a news worthy story, I did anyway.

    It would appear most of the US media didn't think so because it was pretty difficult finding any reports about it.

    The only video I found on youtube came from Russia Today news channel.
    Instead of discussing this event, Fox was yet again obsessed with Iran, others fixated with BP oil spill or immigration in Arizona.

    So US citizens now need to get their national news from a Russian news channel, how times have changed. :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk37plzE1wA


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  • #2
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,653 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    1) US News Organisations report whatever gets ratings. Their job is to make money, not report news.

    2) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/ap_on_bi_ge/us_wall_street_protest
    http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/29/banks.protests/index.html
    http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/04/aflcio-president-wall-street-destroyed-11-million-jobs.html
    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601208&sid=aBu2d6NKQYoI
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/29/business/main6444979.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;3

    Obviously people have forgotten the art of censorship.

    NTM


  • #3
    northwest100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭northwest100


    Manic Moran wrote:
    1) US News Organisations report whatever gets ratings. Their job is to make money, not report news.

    yeah, wasn't worthy of the front page i suppose.

    i would also add to your point that US media organisations are masters in the art of spreading propaganda about countries US mafia cant intimidate or easily steal natural resources from, but that's another thread..in fact we could probably start 50 threads, heck..let's have a separate forum dedicated to US invasions. :D
    Obviously people have forgotten the art of censorship.

    yeah, it got widespread coverage by the media there..can't understand why so many people missed it.


  • #4
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    northwest100 wrote: »
    So, there was a protest on wall street yesterday.. an anti-bank rally by approximately 10,000 people which you'd think was a news worthy story, I did anyway.

    It would appear most of the US media didn't think so because it was pretty difficult finding any reports about it.

    RATM did it 10 years ago hardly novel.


  • #5
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    1) US News Organisations report whatever gets ratings. Their job is to make money, not report news.



    NTM

    That's awfully cynical! Their job is to report news, but they can only do that by making money, in my view.


  • #6
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    have you ever watched an american news network?


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  • #7
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    ChocolateSauce wrote: »
    That's awfully cynical! Their job is to report news, but they can only do that by making money, in my view.

    Im baffled by this response


  • #8
    Anonymous1987
    Closed Accounts Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Anonymous1987


    ChocolateSauce wrote: »
    That's awfully cynical! Their job is to report news, but they can only do that by making money, in my view.
    Doesn't that just confirm what the poster said.


  • #9
    billy the squid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    MSNBC did one of their shows from there.


  • #10
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Perhaps it's partly to do with the fact that, in a country of 300 million, there's more pressing things to be reported upon than a few thousand people protesting on Wall St*. The only other reaosn is that the news corporations are actively seeking to shield the banks from negative publicity, in which case they wouldn't have reported on the Goldman Sachs hearings, or on Obama's efforts to tighten regulations. Also, given the fact that many commentators are highly, and voiciferously, critical of Wall St, I don't think it's a media conspiracy so much as media reality.




    *


  • #11
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Anonymous1987 wrote: »
    Doesn't that just confirm what the poster said.

    Not really. There's a subtle but important difference hiding there.


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  • #12
    Anonymous1987
    Closed Accounts Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Anonymous1987


    Einhard wrote: »
    Not really. There's a subtle but important difference hiding there.
    Care to elaborate? The news stations are corporations, corporations are legally bound to provide a return to shareholders, everything else is a secondary concern. Profit is the priority, producing news is how you achieve profit not the other way around. I guess you could argue that journalists could swing news stations a certain direction but if their reporting fails to produce revenue relative to others then they have very little to defend their reporting with.


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