We are not getting the real news.
“I wear this expression when I’m not sure whether to be excited or scared…”
We’re being fed news through a screen of total hysterica
The Nurse is well acquainted with rose-tinted glasses. She needs to be, locked up in here with water dripping down the walls and all those nutters groaning and banging in nearby cells. But she’s getting riled up about the hysteria-tinted glasses that the news is filtered through.
The Nurse has access to an array of media, even locked in this shithole. A wind-up radio and laptop secreted about her person (don’t even ask) keep her abreast of current affairs. But if she believed everything she read and heard, she’d think the world was coming to an end. The media tell us that recession’s looming, that we’re on the very cusp of economic disaster, that the world’s about to end.
The Nurse also has numerous outside contacts and a lively social e-life. One of her customers sent her a survey the other day that said that more than 65% of businesses felt optimistic about the future and were not suffering unduly from a slow-down. Her contacts are flourishing, expanding, taking on staff and planning for a successful future. Everyone seems pretty cheery.
So who’s right? Are we - as the media insist - at the mercy of the four hoursemen of the apocalypse, doomed to recession, poverty and repossession? Or are we actually managing very nicely, if a bit baffled by all the hysteria?
The problem is that we only have one way to get the news… via the media. To a certain extent the internet allows the people to make the news, but there’s so much noise that it’s difficult to discern the true pattern of things, unbiased and un-spun.
The Nurse amuses herself by reflecting that the media probably don’t broadcast and write the truth because the truth is often pretty dull. CANNABIS PSYCHO NUTTER RISK’ is sooo much more exciting than ’EXPERTS SAY THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF INCREASED PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLNESS DUE TO CANNABIS. IN FACT MENTAL ILLNESS STATISTICS ARE UNCHANGED AND MOST PEOPLE JUST GET REALLY, REALLY STONED.’
And ’CREDIT CRUNCH A BIT OF A NUISANCE BUT MOST PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES ARE BASICALLY OKAY AND HAVING A NICE TIME’ probably won’t sell as many papers as ‘RECESSION BITES… HOLD ON TO YOUR KNACKERS’.
It’s a mad world.
grossesse wrote,
Thats true.I think now a days media is also getting more concerns about its trp.They have forgot that they’ve some moral responsibility to the society. They should show some maturity and work for society.
Link | August 31st, 2009 at 11:54 am
Lawrence from Download Music Albums wrote,
Well this is true. I remember the old days when i was younger i saw kids in the yard playing in sandboxes at the age of 7. Now i see kids smoking cigarettes, drinking beer and fighting at the age of 8. Who do you think gave them the influence?
Link | October 3rd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Johnny wrote,
This is why the internet is so great. It allows independent media who don’t have the big bucks report on the real stories. For example, the “tax parties” in the U.S. are barely reported in major media BUT they are widely reported via internet media outlets. This is freedom of the press at its finest and there’s nothing those major media news companies can do about it.
Link | October 12th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Snowboard clothing wrote,
There is a lot of propoganda thrown around as news these days – on top of loads of bogus, made up news stories that are simply not true. There are people who are employed just to make up sensational nonsense in the hope that it attracts attention just to pull in some website visitors.
The media in all its forms simply can’t be trusted these days.
Link | October 13th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
RC cars wrote,
There is a lot of denial in todays news. Too many cases of the emperors new clothes and not enough people shouting about him being stark naked.
Never trust the media
Link | October 13th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Action man wrote,
No shit sherlock. The press or media or whatever you want to call them – have been making stuff up, exagerating, under-reporting and generally doing a crap job ever since some twat invented the printing press. Just ignore it all cos it’s all a load of balloney.
Link | October 14th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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Link | December 30th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Herb Shallcross wrote,
Here we go again! Why, Nurse, if you know the media is grossly exaggerating the news, do you buy into the man-made global warming hoax? How many times do you have to disprove a lie before the Nurse will stop repeating the lies herself?
You are being lied to for a reason. There is a lot of money to be made. AL Gore alone has hustled us for about a billion. Three quarters of the UN is composed of fascist dictators who would be delighted to force the developed world to give them “Climate Reparations”. The thoroughly corrupt U.N. would get their skim off the top while brokering the cap and trade programs, as well as getting direct climate taxes from any nation that has any money left. They would also be impowered to ignore national sovereignty and create and enforce laws on anyone in the world they arbitrarily decided to.
Be careful what your good intentions are getting you into!
Link | December 31st, 2009 at 4:46 am
Markus Doomsday 2012 Nibiru News wrote,
Life goes up and down and then you die. There is alot happening now with earth changes and all like the oilspill and Iran crisis. Many have written about pole shifts and how the earth can change in a few hours, even Albert Einstein was for the theory. Wonder what the earth would look like if this happened? 2012 Prophecy prognoses are indeed interesting! Peace!
Link | June 29th, 2010 at 10:51 pm