Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] what next?

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

>
> Well, if Vern Green says it, it must be true.  I guess I was wrong to
> think that ABC, CBS and NBC were giving relatively unbiased reports.
> Vern Green knows that there are "standard lap dog groups out there," but
> he won't name those groups.  And those groups, Vern Green says, are
> controlling the "slant" that ABC, CBS and NBC put on the news.  Well,
> thank goodness that Vern Green got the inside info from his secret sources
> and shared his vague ideas with us.
>
Its about demographic groups Mike, maybe you have heard of them. In
particular the 50-60 year old crowd who are so self-absorbed with
themselves that they do not have time to research beyond the shill
that is coming out of the major news titles. Those that grew up before
the days of cable TV, back inthe days of Walter Cronkite when the only
news on TV was the news they gave you. Back in the day when the term
journalistic integrity meant something.

Of course, the first thing you jump on is the word groups like I am
referring to some secret organization that is out there influencing
the world. Demographic groups Mike, that is what all of the TV news
channels play to. From the ads they put on during the broadcast to the
stories and the slant they use to tell them.

If my group is liberal democrats in their 50 - 60s that think the Iraq
war is a bad idea, do I really want to put on a story that might upset
them and have them go look somewhere else for their news. I cannot
afford to keep the news on TV if I do not have advertisers. So I pitch
to the crowd that I know is tuning in so to keep them tuning in week
after week. It is too bad really, but after all it is all business!

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Thanks
F Vernon Green

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