On 8/22/12 18:51 , Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:
On 8/22/2012 7:42 PM, Rob wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:05:24 -0700 (PDT), Truth Teller
wrote:

The national media slobbered over the news of the vicious anti-gay
hate crime for days on end. Now I haven't heard anything about the
story being made up by the deranged "victim" other than in the local
newspaper. Interesting.

Aug 21, 6:26 PM EDT

Police: Ex-Neb. hoops star faked anti-gay attack

By GRANT SCHULTE
Associated Press

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A former University of Nebr

The associated press is world wide news provider. There is nothing hidden
about this incident.




True, but few people read the raw feeds on the wire services. (For
example, who here is aware of the UPI stories on Israeli death squads
being deployed in Western nations?)

There is a huge difference in the way national editors treat stories
with Politically Correct perpetrators versus those with Politically
Incorrect perpetrators. One often results in major network and front
page coverage for weeks -- the other almost never does so.



The truth is that almost no one is committed to being informed, in
this country, anymore. They take what they're spoonfed, and ignore much
of that. To be truly informed requires work, and there just isn't that
much effort being put into by the public. And editors know this.

In school, I sat through class after class telling me that the public
will know what we WANT them to know, because we're the media, and
they're ignorant (although the presentation was much less direct than
that statement). At CBS, I sat through meeting after meeting after
meeting, (until I could no longer stand it and left), where we were told
what we'd talk about, how we'd cover it, and what our position was to be
on that subject. And when I spoke up and said that the 'official'
position isn't true, was told...and this is a direct quote from my
GM..."this is what we stand for. And we will make the case, without
reservation, or we'll no longer work here. The subject is not open for
debate."

I walked out in utter disgust not long after. Put my key on the
table, and never went back. Not even to clean out my office. I left my
mics, preamps, and compressors there, as well as nearly 12 years of
material and properties.

Andy Warhol, of whom I was never really a fan, made a significant
point with his Empire State building film: that the truth, in media, is
what's given to you. And that everything you see, hear, read, or
experience in media is from a point of view selected by the producer,
editor, writer, or presenter. Doug Urbanski said that in Hollywood,
EVERYTHING is staged. The topic is selected. The presentation is
crafted, and everything...every inflection, every pause, every facial
muscles' twitch is carefully selected to imply a judgment about the
topic. There is no unbiased coverage, or presentation. Not in Hollywood.
Not anywhere.

Even something as simple as 8 hours of a single shot of the Empire
State Building is biased. You see the perspective of the camera. A
perspective that's chosen for you, unchallenged, and uncontrasted, by
the person who chose the shot. The unbiased truth isn't what's on the
screen, it's what's standing at 5th Ave and West 34th. The unbiased
truth is the Empire State Building seen from all sides, and all angles
all times of the day or night. And experienced in totality.

Media doesn't do that. Media selects. Media edits. And the truth is
often the things that Media never presents, never reveals.