Comments on: How to Manipulate the TV News http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/current-events/manipulate-tv-news/ Science Fiction Novelist, Blogger, Web Programmer Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:02:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jodi Davis http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/current-events/manipulate-tv-news/#comment-142 Jodi Davis Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:16:00 +0000 http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/?p=133#comment-142 As a teenager, my father was an air traffic controller who went on strike - and, lesson for my parents too - we had a hard lesson on the way news stories are done - even *investigative* journalism. Since then I've worked in PR and Media Relations - and honestly, I get a bit of perverse revenge glee in seeing a release I wrote reported verbatim by a *reporter.* An evil thought came to mind last night after seeing a CNN report on terrorist attack spots in America... All a terrorist group has to do is attack anything - or even try to attack anything, and then claim that they targeted that spot because of a specific news report... On one hand, terrorists win and we no longer have *free* news media in America... and on the hand that I scared myself with... I almost wasn't too upset about what 95% of their dissapearance meant. Then I had some tequila. As a teenager, my father was an air traffic controller who went on strike - and, lesson for my parents too - we had a hard lesson on the way news stories are done - even *investigative* journalism.

Since then I’ve worked in PR and Media Relations - and honestly, I get a bit of perverse revenge glee in seeing a release I wrote reported verbatim by a *reporter.*

An evil thought came to mind last night after seeing a CNN report on terrorist attack spots in America… All a terrorist group has to do is attack anything - or even try to attack anything, and then claim that they targeted that spot because of a specific news report… On one hand, terrorists win and we no longer have *free* news media in America… and on the hand that I scared myself with… I almost wasn’t too upset about what 95% of their dissapearance meant.

Then I had some tequila.

]]> By: LJ's penpusher http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/current-events/manipulate-tv-news/#comment-141 LJ's penpusher Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:04:14 +0000 http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/?p=133#comment-141 Hey... so, would you like to come on "talk_show," the LJ place where users discuss their lives and experiences? I'd be fascinated to hear more of your stories and I know the audience that reads that journal would as well. Contact me at my email if you have any interest. Thanks! Hey… so, would you like to come on “talk_show,” the LJ place where users discuss their lives and experiences? I’d be fascinated to hear more of your stories and I know the audience that reads that journal would as well.

Contact me at my email if you have any interest. Thanks!

]]> By: Jose http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/current-events/manipulate-tv-news/#comment-140 Jose Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:38:29 +0000 http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/?p=133#comment-140 I had a similar rude awakening a few years back during the Rodney King riots. I was in Toronto at the time and there was a small sympathetic protest that broke out the same day. I was in a shopping mall at the time and mall security wouldn't let me and my girlfriend leave by the exit that would have led us straight into the subway on account of "the riot". Ironicaly enough the only exit they would let us use led us directly into the "riot". As a consequence I got to see what was happening first hand. Mainly a small group of 20 protesters (black) along with a much larger group of rowdy youths (white). All the trouble was basicaly caused by bored white kids who basicaly co-opted the protest for a bit of hell raising. The tv news completely missed this angle even though it was perfectly visible in their footage. Just about every statement the talking heads were making was factually incorrect. For some added irony the whole event took place about 2-3 blocks away from the news studio. Since then I've taken tv news with a healthy grain of salt. I had a similar rude awakening a few years back during the Rodney King riots. I was in Toronto at the time and there was a small sympathetic protest that broke out the same day.

I was in a shopping mall at the time and mall security wouldn’t let me and my girlfriend leave by the exit that would have led us straight into the subway on account of “the riot”. Ironicaly enough the only exit they would let us use led us directly into the “riot”. As a consequence I got to see what was happening first hand. Mainly a small group of 20 protesters (black) along with a much larger group of rowdy youths (white). All the trouble was basicaly caused by bored white kids who basicaly co-opted the protest for a bit of hell raising.

The tv news completely missed this angle even though it was perfectly visible in their footage. Just about every statement the talking heads were making was factually incorrect. For some added irony the whole event took place about 2-3 blocks away from the news studio.

Since then I’ve taken tv news with a healthy grain of salt.

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