"xeM" wrote in message ...
: On 13 Oct 2006 17:35:49 GMT, wrote:
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: The media is to blame for their own stupidity.
: The politicians only believe what they think the public wants them to
: believe. Both attack GA out of pure ignorance.
:
: You missed the point of the entire post.
:
: So your blaming the news media - CNN or MSNBC or whoever, for
: reporting what the clueless elected officials are saying?
:
:
: No, I think I nailed the point of the post, which was to blame the
: news media for bad reporting at a minimum,( or all the ills of the
: world at a maximum), for simply quoting what some of the politicians
: are saying / considering due to the recent crash in NYC. I'm not a
: big fan of the news media either, with the current '24 hours / we must
: be sensational and get ratings' standard of journalism, but in this
: case it appears that they quoted the politicians accurately.
: I do agree with your statement that stupidity certainly seems to lie
: in the lap of the politicians and by extension, the people who elected
: them.
:
:

It is one of those self fulfilling prophesy sort of things. First someone sees plane, someone else yells. Report comes
in planes yelling. The politician says yelling is not allowed, so the news says no yelling. The plane flies by, yell
occurs, therefore the plane causes yelling and must be banned according to the politician. The new quotes the
politician, the opponent sees the popularity of the quote and says it also. The news builds it up again.

I hate politics...