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visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:12:53 -0500 From: David McDivitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (fwd) John Stossel Hosts a Special "20/20" on Media Hype To: "Stossel Letter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: John Stossel Hosts a Special "20/20" on Media Hype From: John Stossel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:05:16 -0700 This Friday's "20/20" is about us...fooling YOU. I host "20/20" this week -- both Barbara and John Miller have a night off -- and I'll use the hour to look at the how we (the media) may mislead you. Sometimes the media distort pictures. I'll show you how. The Communists killed Trotsky and then removed him from Soviet photographs. Now computers make it easier. Remember when some people booed Hillary Clinton at a fund-raising concert after September 11th? MTV replayed the concert, but changed the boos to applause. "TV Guide" put Oprah Winfrey on its cover, but gave her Ann-Margret's body. Steven Spielberg took guns out of the remake of "ET." Of course, that's just entertainment. It's worse if NEWS organizations distort. I'll tell you what ABCNEWS has done. And what I did. Even when we don't distort, we can still mislead by hyping tiny risks. You heard about "road rage," but did you know there's no evidence of road rage increasing? The media reports were mostly based on -- get this: a study of MEDIA REPORTS of road rage. It was circular logic. And the reason for all those shark attack reports last year was NOT an increase in the number of attacks, it was just hype! We'll show you how, and why. And what aren't those glossy magazines telling you about those cars they love? Some important news. Maybe it was because the media are "on the take." OK, not really "on the take," but we get influenced by people being nice to us, or giving us things, or advertising with us. We'll tell you about the cozy relationship between car magazines and car makers. And did you hear about the the dog brothel (a cathouse for dogs!), and the cockroach that cured colds? All were hoaxes, OBVIOUS hoaxes, that nevertheless fooled the gullible media. I'll introduce you to the hoaxer, who tricks the media, he says, because he wants to show how intellectually lazy we are. He has a point. Journalists work hard, but we are intellectually lazy when we focus on sharks rather than undertows; road rage, or car-jackings, rather than drunken driving. It's bad journalism, and as Bob Lichter of the Statistical Assessment Service puts it, bad journalism is worse than no journalism, because it leads people to think they know things, when they don't. --- For more on this and the all the latest news, go to http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/2020/index.html?cmp=EM1388 -- http://nonspiritual.com ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrCn8.bWdS6o Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
