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26th May 2007, 11:30 PM
So I was looking at slashdot, and they had the top 25 censored news stories of the year. A guy had a really good point: Lindsay Lohan has alot bigger tits than global warming.
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm
If ifs and ands were pots and pans we'd all be doing dishes
27th May 2007, 6:43 AM
It's not censorship and it's not a conspiracy. It has everything to do with how the news has become "entertainment".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
27th May 2007, 9:00 AM
Yep, that's pretty much it. News is a business and as such does what it believes it needs to do in order to continue making lots of money.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.
28th May 2007, 7:18 PM
It's self-censorship and self-delusion, partially... the government isn't saying "you cannot air those stories". I'm sure that there is internal pressure from this administration to not talk about things like most of those, but if the news media really wanted to they could... but they also have to appease their corporate owners and sponsors, and deal with the extremely partisan, polarized political climate, and for the most part they don't press it. You simply don't hear about stuff like most of that in the press very often... though Iraq is in the news every day, and the news is almost all bad, so it's not like they're doing NOTHING. They're just not doing anywhere near as much as they could, or should, do. This applies across the board and not just to Iraq, of course...
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