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  • trillobyite
    FFR Player
    • Oct 2003
    • 310
    #1

    The Media

    I propose two questions:

    1. Out of all the media outlets that exist in our world, which do you believe to be the least biased and most objective?

    My opinion is that the "Economist" is the most objective, factual, and non-biased new magazine out there. It tells you what happened, how it happened, why it happened. It doesn't try to act too controversial and is specifically meant to be read by world leaders.

    2. What is the definition of media objectivity? Is it A: To have two people of opposite opinions share their beliefs or B: Give the 5 Ws and H (who what when etc) without adding in too much opinion, just reporting on events?

    I pick B. Why? Because I believe that the purpose of the media is to INFORM and nothing else. It should act just like a history textbook, no more and no less. I find it shameful when a discussion about Stalin will have an extremist communist who supports Stalin present, or have a Holocaust denier present at a Holocaust memorial event.

    What do all of you think should be the answer to those two questions?
    Every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lives here on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
    http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/pbd.html
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    • pntballa18
      FFR Player
      • Mar 2005
      • 3357
      #2
      RE: The Media

      1: Daily show. No really CNN, they just give the facts

      2: A, because that's the objectivity, is people objecting.

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        • esupin
          FFR Player
          • Nov 2003
          • 1756
          #3
          Re: RE: The Media

          Originally posted by pntballa18
          2: A, because that's the objectivity, is people objecting.
          I don't think that's what he meant...

          I think B. The media should give information and allow the readers to come up with their own conclusions.
          If writers based everything on their own opinion, every single news article would be biased in some way; only key facts to support their argument would be discussed.

          If you ever watch the evening news at 6:30, the reporters interview people from both sides of the story.
          60 minutes... that's another case.

          http://www.youtube.com/esupin

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            • trillobyite
              FFR Player
              • Oct 2003
              • 310
              #4
              Re: RE: The Media

              Originally posted by pntballa18
              1: Daily show. No really CNN, they just give the facts

              2: A, because that's the objectivity, is people objecting.
              Objectivity does not mean that people are supposed to object. It means that the news has to focus on the objective without deviation.
              Every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lives here on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
              http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/pbd.html

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                • blahblah18
                  FFR Player
                  • Aug 2004
                  • 1662
                  #5
                  RE: Re: RE: The Media

                  media and objectivity is an inherent contradiction, becuase of the power of words. Any use of any word betrays the writer's feelings and meaning as it bores into our subconscious. The world is on a slant and can only be reported on a slant, and to think otherwise is to be naive
                  but for now... postCount++

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