McFly Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 http://www.medialens.org/index.php There's no point discussing anything on this forum cos the news is all nonsense anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reesie Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Oh McFly! You had to get Medialens involved didn't you. Please excuse me while I fetch your soapbox. Nah, good point my friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peeriebryan Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 What's Medialens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFly Posted January 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Apparently they are "Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media". Have a read through the site, there's alot of interesting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petergear Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 Thanks for that McFly, enjoying the Medialens site, lots of good material. 8O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFly Posted January 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 No problem Mr Gear. 8O indeed! It's scary how much of what we think is reliable news is actually spin. When you compare the facts and figures in some of those articles to the related stories in "respectable" broadsheets, the differences in message are quite incredible. It really is a full time job to dig up the real story behind the headlines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 That is so true. We think we live in a democracy with free speech etc., and a liberated press, but it is 100% true that our perception of what is happening around the world or even in our own country is incredibly selective. During the beginning of the 2nd "Gulf War" i was pointed towards debka.com, a middle eastern news service, and was gob-smacked to see the differences in what we were hearing in the UK as compared with debkafile. One can hardly imagine what the yanks were hearing. The fiddler calls the tune indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distortio Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 it is 100% true that our perception of what is happening around the world or even in our own country is incredibly selective. actually it's only 96% true, sometimes our perception of what is happening around the world or in our own country is only very selective. it said so on fox news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 I'm pretty sure that the Daily Star is a fictional piece of paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFly Posted February 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 I'm pretty sure that the Daily Star is a fictional piece of paper. No, unfortunately it's very real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 I'm pretty sure that the Daily Star is a fictional piece of paper. No, unfortunately it's very real. Why use it as toilet paper, there is enough crap on it already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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