Showing posts with label Person. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Person. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2012

You Are a Terrible Person Because Someone Took Something You Said Out of Context - Huh?

The other day, I was looking at a media poll, it was on one of the left-leaning news stations, and I was alarmed at their reasoning. You see, they had taken something at of context that one of the GOP candidates had said on the road. Then they played it over and over again critiquing his words. Now mind you it was definitely out of context, nevertheless at the end of the programming they did a little survey and asked people to Twitter, or text message the answer to their survey.

Next, they put the survey on TV showing that 67% of the people disapproved of what was said, and thought that the politician in question should not be president. Okay so, let's talk about this for second shall we?

It seems to me this is mass mind manipulation and brainwashing. Basically the media company is leading the answer to the viewers, and then posting the results of how many people they were able to snooker who called in to participate in a survey. This shows me of their ability to brainwash, and has very little to do with the individual who said something, that perhaps they should've said, because they should've known that the leftist media would've taken it out of context, which they did.

Apparently, our media has the ability to slander and berate someone as a terrible person, after they take something they said out of context. That's interesting isn't it? But isn't that really just office gossip gone wild? Isn't the media in this case just pandering to the inherent behavioral challenges of humans in mass mobs? Is that really all the better we are, is that all the better we can do in America? Is that the level of intelligence that we've come to expect? How is it that America has been so dummied down that they fall for this garbage hook, line, and sinker like a school of fish?

You are not a terrible person because someone said you were, you can only be a terrible person if you are a terrible person. Slandering someone's good name just because they are a politician is exactly why we don't have very many good people running for office. Because as soon as someone who is decent runs for office, this is what the media does to them, and our society follows. They build them up just to burn down, and the reality is they just don't care. Of course, a politician can run for office without saying anything, but as soon as they say something, someone blows it out of proportion, takes it out of context, and sends it viral across the Internet.

It's time for America to grow up. It's time for the media to catch a clue. If they have to use these types of innuendos, and create this type of sound and fury just to get people to tune in, then there's no wonder why they are going out of business. And if that were not for election seasons, they'd already have gone bankrupt. Maybe they are no longer needed, maybe their future demise is their own fault? Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on the Internet and Media. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/


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Saturday, April 7, 2012

What's With All of the Repeat News - Is There Just One Person or Machine Writing It All?

Okay so, I don't know about you, but many might consider me a news junkie, and yes, I'm up on all the issues all the time, day or night, I get the news alerts just like everyone else, and do my fair share of reading, and scanning the globe for interesting topics in the world media. One thing I've noted that is getting a little out of control is that local papers, regional papers, and even national papers often run the exact same story which was perhaps found in the Associated Press. It's as if everything is a re-run.

Interestingly enough, if you get your news minute by minute and second by second, by the time the newspaper is printed, it's already old news, and you are onto something else. In fact you are more likely than not to have already read that exact article online, or an abbreviated version of it on your smart phone, or iPad. Then there are all the syndicators which seem to swipe news stories, and put them online. Many of these in-depth going viral on the social networks, and can be found in the search engines.

Even though 300 newspapers in the United States have already gone to online subscriptions and pay walls, a good bit of their content is already available other places, and the reality is you don't really have to pay for it, and you probably will miss very little if you choose not to subscribe. Yes, it's true every once in a while you will miss some piece of information that you might wish to know, but generally it seems as if all the news is copied over and over again.

The other day, I was doing a little standup comedy routine for friends, and I stated that there must just be one person writing the news, or an artificial intelligent program, and then all the newspapers just gobble up the story, and there are no more reporters anymore. There's just one lonely person working in a back room typing away. If you doubt this is possible, there's been times when I have written 25 to 50 articles in a 24-hour period.

In any given newspaper there aren't generally more than 50 articles, therefore it is actually possible that one person, or perhaps just a handful are writing all the world news, and with the assistance of speech recognition software and artificial intelligence, they could do it too. The worst thing is none of us would ever know, would we? Indeed, I would like to leave you with that thought today, if you are wondering where our news industry is going, and what you can believe anymore. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/


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