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  • Hardrock69
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Feb 2005
    • 21897
    #16
    Originally posted by knuckleboner
    so then, it's the viewers fault, not the medias. ok.
    Well, in a way it is...

    The Networks are only going to show that material which attracts viewers.

    If Walt Disney-esque news was the only thing the public could tolerate or would watch, then we would get fluff and pansies and nothing negative.

    There has to be a balance between positive and negative, but when murder and death and fire are the only things that make the sheeple go "OOOoOOOooOoOoOoooo" then that is pretty much what we are going to see all the time....

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      • BigBadBrian
        TOASTMASTER GENERAL
        • Jan 2004
        • 10625
        #17
        Originally posted by Hardrock69
        Well, in a way it is...

        The Networks are only going to show that material which attracts viewers.
        Exactly.

        The job of the Network News is not to report the news, but to attract advertising dollars. It's that simple.

        “If bullshit was currency, Joe Biden would be a billionaire.” - George W. Bush

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          • ODShowtime
            ROCKSTAR

            • Jun 2004
            • 5812
            #18
            Originally posted by BigBadBrian
            Exactly.

            The job of the Network News is not to report the news, but to attract advertising dollars. It's that simple.

            Now that sounds like something I would say!



            Unfortunately the point that deaths=ratings was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt about 4 years ago.
            gnaw on it

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              • Hardrock69
                DIAMOND STATUS
                • Feb 2005
                • 21897
                #19
                4 years ago? It was proven much longer ago than that....

                I have read guidelines sent to network affiliates that say stuff like "Be sure to show film footage with lots of flames and fire and smoke in it because it attracts viewers..." and this was back in the 80s!

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                  • Nickdfresh
                    SUPER MODERATOR

                    • Oct 2004
                    • 49565
                    #20
                    I wonder if BRIAN ever complained of the relentless, negative coverage during the MONICA LEWINSKY scandel...

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                      • Warham
                        DIAMOND STATUS
                        • Mar 2004
                        • 14589
                        #21
                        There was nothing positive to report during the Lewinsky scandal. Nothing good came out of Clinton's pants being down.

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                          • BigBadBrian
                            TOASTMASTER GENERAL
                            • Jan 2004
                            • 10625
                            #22
                            Originally posted by Nickdfresh
                            I wonder if BRIAN ever complained of the relentless, negative coverage during the MONICA LEWINSKY scandel...
                            Yeah, Clinton had lousy taste in women. Still does.

                            “If bullshit was currency, Joe Biden would be a billionaire.” - George W. Bush

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                              • Guitar Shark
                                ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                                • Jan 2004
                                • 7579
                                #23
                                Originally posted by BigBadBrian
                                Yeah, Clinton had lousy taste in women. Still does.

                                Can't argue with that.

                                The only one even REMOTELY appealing is Gennifer Flowers.

                                Surely the leader of the free world should be able to do better.
                                ROTH ARMY MILITIA


                                Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
                                Sharky sometimes needs things spelled out for him in explicit, specific detail. I used to think it was a lawyer thing, but over time it became more and more evident that he's merely someone's idiot twin.

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                                  • Nickdfresh
                                    SUPER MODERATOR

                                    • Oct 2004
                                    • 49565
                                    #24
                                    Originally posted by Warham
                                    There was nothing positive to report during the Lewinsky scandal. Nothing good came out of Clinton's pants being down.
                                    As now...

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                                      • Warham
                                        DIAMOND STATUS
                                        • Mar 2004
                                        • 14589
                                        #25
                                        Lots of positives going on in Iraq.

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