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Originally posted by Kamryn
My understanding and EXPERIENCE with the media, as a public relations specialist, my background as an activist and my EDUCATION, etc. reinforces my opinion of the media and how the media changes your perception of what you are seeing. Things aren't always as they appear to be.
In that little world that you live in, everything me be prim and proper. But I live in the REAL world, where propaganda exists.
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Well golly gee Mr. Wizard, propaganda in media thats unpossible
I know that the media changes how we percieve things, given the fact that it is the medium in which we first learn of events. I'd say the educated fool is one who knows this, and there for dismisses the media - instead of the wiser person who realizes there is propaganda and bias and decides to look past it by using the media as a information tool, and not being a tool of the media.
Yes when I heard about the looting from the media my first thoughts tended to centre on the fact that the most sensational stories are the ones that grab the limelight - so I decided to do some checking myself into primary or unaltered sources that thanks to the wonderful world of the internet we now have access to. For example you could have listened to the NOPD and Emergency Services radio via the internet, or accessed one of the sites broadcasting images from the NO via webcams. Although some of these images and broadcasts did make note of the fact that some of the looting was about survival, a very large percentage had nothing to do with survival and more to do with criminality.
The unfortunate thing is that I wasn't at all surprised; disappointed yes, but not surprised. I guess that's because I have seen the worst of humanity, and realize that ever community or society has the animal or scum element - only scope of the element is really in question.
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To you I may seem like an educated fool. Educated I am, but not a fool. You see, I think of all of the possibilities. I don't allow myself to be led by our media. I THINK for myself. Only lazy people sit back and let the media tell them what to think. As I said before, things aren't always what they APPEAR to be. I'm not saying that no one is looting. Maybe they are. But we can't generalize it and say that people aren't looting for a reason. One of the primary reasons is survival. I can't speak on behalf of everyone and neither can you.
It has been said that, if you argue with a fool it's hard to tell who the fool is. I'm not arguing with you. I stated my opinion to help enlighten your mind and stimulate your intellect. You're entitled to your own opinion as well.
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My only hope is that you take your own advise and actually look into things before accepting the preconceptions that you are most comfortable wiin th. While I expected there to be looting (there is after ever disaster) I was shocked by the levels being reported in the media - so I decided to check by other means to see if the levels were being exagerated... and unfortunately I don't think they were - if anything it was so commonplace that it wasn't all that sensational for reporters anymore.
Hopefully through some desire to defend/strengthen your opinion you'll do some digging yourself - because while it may not change your opinion at least you'll have a better grasp of the situation.