> You are wrong. This is about money. People watch this on TV, buy
> magazines that write articles about it and listen to radio programs
> about that talk in detail about it. These so called "media barons"
> aren't hiding anything, they are giving people exactly what they are
> demanding and in the process making money.
Didn't I point to a Pew link that says 8% are "very interested",
compared to 38% "very interested" in Iraq? No, it's not about money,
it's about "attention diversion".
I do agree that the media is definitely after money, but that's only one
part of two. The other is political power, although I suppose it could
be argued they are one and them same. Nevertheless, it's wrong, wrong, a
thousand times wrong. The media is a "public trust" and they have
violated that trust beyond comprehension.
> I can honestly say I have never watched, read, or discussed this case,
or any of the other so
> called "high profile" cases in the last 5 years. But then, I also am
> not a target market for advertisers.
It's not just Jackson, they are obsessed with anything sex-related.
Someone should publish a website that names the barons and details their
sexual activities.
Side note: I'm here in Ft Lauderdale FL, the winter home of many very
wealthy people (it's almost unbelievable, how much wealth is here). Now
get this: the police will run you down and ruin your life if you go near
a hooker on the street. But if you have $300 to spend, there are a ton
of agencies that will send you whatever you want, right to your door. So
they get all the sex they want, quietly, while "joe six-pack" goes to
jail for the same exact thing. But that's an aside, thinking about the
double-standard of it all.
> You want this to be more than it is......it's people. I bet
> if Pew Research was actually able to watch the
> viewing/reading/listening habits
> of those same people, the percentage would be far above 8%. Who they
> hell is going to admit to being infatuated with this sh*t.
> But in the end, media and news is about entertainment. Why
> do you think national news is covering Jackson and not your
> local school board meeting?
Okay, I'll give them their due. In a free society, they should be
allowed to publish whatever they want to publish. HOWEVER, we have an
absolute need for information to make our decisions, and baring the
existence any alternative whatsoever, these people have become our only
information feed. THAT is what is so terribly wrong here.
Bill
> Alan Wyne
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