Media Bias?

[hairypumper]

The network news is all over the nursing home shooting that killed 8 people, but I haven't seen a thing about this. http://news.aol.ca/article/man-kills...rthday/581351/

[HoosierHelen]

Hairy,

I've wondered also why we haven't heard more news about this horrible event. When you raised the question this morning, I decided to google to see what I came up with. What a terrible loss.

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Here are a few links to stories in their Boston Herald that further describe the murders.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...omments&cnum=2


http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...icleid=1162093

[matt_s]

I believe there was also a murder/suicide of an entire family yesterday in California.

Unless you decide to create and control your own media outlet, nothing will ever have quite the right mix for any individual. Somethings will be shortchanged and others overblown.

[Mr Douglas]

Where's the outrage on this one? They'll beat the Michael Vick story into the ground, and give a bunch of animal activists hemmorroids over dogs (that like it or not are/were BRED to fight), but then a story like this is a little passing blurb?-
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29913096/

[HoosierHelen]

Where's the outrage on this one? They'll beat the Michael Vick story into the ground, and give a bunch of animal activists hemmorroids over dogs (that like it or not are/were BRED to fight), but then a story like this is a little passing blurb?-
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29913096/

I've heard alot of people tell me that Pit Bulls are bred to fight. During a recent visit to our vets office, we met the most intimidating hugh Pit Bull with the sweetest personality. He made friends with our little dachshound quickly and they played with getting to know each other - very friendly (dogs are always a bit too friendly) :-) His owner visited with us as to it is all in how the Pit Bull is raised as to their personality.

In our small town, there are several in the town who keep Pit Bulls in these cages in their backyards. These dogs are NOT friendly when we walk past with our dog. I know they can be dangerous, however, I am more convinced than ever it is all in how they are cared for. Heck, who among us wouldn't be angry if our life consisted of 24/7 living in a cage watching the world go by?

Douglas, the link you posted was horrible! I hope the courts hold these State Employees responsibile and dismiss them from their positions. Double disgust from me when I read that nothing would have came out of this case unless someone had video on their cell phone to prove it. Good reminder to check on those who can't take care of theirselves.

[hairypumper]

I believe there was also a murder/suicide of an entire family yesterday in California.

Unless you decide to create and control your own media outlet, nothing will ever have quite the right mix for any individual. Somethings will be shortchanged and others overblown.

This is so, so true. We get the news the media moguls want us to get in the way they want us to get it. But now they are being foiled by the internet. We can get a lot more information than the powers to be want us to have. Now we just have to decide what to do with the info.

[susiegirasole]

Helen, your point about Pit Bulls and how they are raised determine their personality is right on. My boyfriend had a roommate who got a pit as a puppy and he was agressive in playing with it. It was a very happy dog but strangers or anyone the dog didn't know well would get her wrath. The owner wasn't (in my opinion) a good person and of course I knew his intentions were to make it a fighting dog. After an incident, my boyfriend moved out and I don't know what came of the dog. Also, I saw on animal planet that in Detroit if a pit is found to be a fighting dog they are required to put it down. Very sad because they are never given a real chance to live a happy life.

[mrs.bass46703]

Where's the outrage on this one? They'll beat the Michael Vick story into the ground, and give a bunch of animal activists hemmorroids over dogs (that like it or not are/were BRED to fight), but then a story like this is a little passing blurb?-
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29913096/

i know but i think it's about money. If you have it your story gets beat to the ground if you don't it doesn't plain and simple.

[matt_s]

This is so, so true. We get the news the media moguls want us to get in the way they want us to get it. But now they are being foiled by the internet. We can get a lot more information than the powers to be want us to have. Now we just have to decide what to do with the info.

I don't see it as a conspiracy. I just see it as a simple issue of limited space and time. Even online there are limits to how many headlines you can get into the prime spots. Everybody picks the headlines that they think will further their business the most (sell more subscriptions or garner more long time listeners/viewers to sell advertising to). I don't think the media moguls are trying to further one political POV over another they are simply trying to maximize their profit potential. Sometimes that is through branding as conservative or liberal (Fox) other times it is by serving up a specific set of headlines geared towards a target market (USA Today - sports fans traveling far from home for work).

[TheBigB]

I believe there was also a murder/suicide of an entire family yesterday in California.

In this economy, this seems to be happening in California on a weekly basis if not more often. It's not even something that hits the state news wire that often.

[mrs.bass46703]

I don't see it as a conspiracy. I just see it as a simple issue of limited space and time. Even online there are limits to how many headlines you can get into the prime spots. Everybody picks the headlines that they think will further their business the most (sell more subscriptions or garner more long time listeners/viewers to sell advertising to). I don't think the media moguls are trying to further one political POV over another they are simply trying to maximize their profit potential. Sometimes that is through branding as conservative or liberal (Fox) other times it is by serving up a specific set of headlines geared towards a target market (USA Today - sports fans traveling far from home for work).

so you don't think any of it has to do with money or the lack of?

[matt_s]

i know but i think it's about money. If you have it your story gets beat to the ground if you don't it doesn't plain and simple.

No, I don't. Sometimes the rich and famous get roughed up a bit more in the news, just because it will create a media spectacle. Then of course you have the times where a story gets buried. I think they cancel each other out most of the time.

[HoosierHelen]

i know but i think it's about money. If you have it your story gets beat to the ground if you don't it doesn't plain and simple.

I see a connection with money Mrs. Bass. When it is a National Sports figure, Entertainer, or Politician, they get the headlines over the little girl that was decapitated by her brother. Why? Because people want to know more info about the popular names than they do about an unknown little 5 yr old. And...as Matt said...they print what will sell papers.

Nationally known names in newsprint, sell papers...a little 5 yr old or a 17 yr old who no one knows....does NOT sell papers. UNLESS they can dice it up with a racial slant, which in this case obviously didn't apply.

Harsh truth isn't it?

[burgundystar77]

The network news is all over the nursing home shooting that killed 8 people, but I haven't seen a thing about this. http://news.aol.ca/article/man-kills...rthday/581351/

Oh man; it was awful-it's been all over the World News Tonight! The guy had to have been a lunatic man; how could anyone go about shooting old(er) people, like that-crazy crazy crazy! My heart goes out to their families, man; that's just so wrong!

[Jethro Gibbs]

What are all these killings and serious, horrific news you guys have been talking about I just can't seem to drag myself away from the Madonna adopting an orphan story! I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to see how this turns out! Talk about important stuff!!

[HoosierHelen]

What are all these killings and serious, horrific news you guys have been talking about I just can't seem to drag myself away from the Madonna adopting an orphan story! I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to see how this turns out! Talk about important stuff!!

well now Jethro, I'm glad you are mixing your media. Good news of a child from an orphanage in Africa being adopted into a privledged lifestyle may be as good as a dose of cod liver oil. AND as many know....that is still a healthy element for all of us! May this child be blessed with the gift of family, health, and education in her new life.

[Mr Douglas]

i know but i think it's about money. .

Or how much was paid to stop talking about it.

[hairypumper]

Oh man; it was awful-it's been all over the World News Tonight! The guy had to have been a lunatic man; how could anyone go about shooting old(er) people, like that-crazy crazy crazy! My heart goes out to their families, man; that's just so wrong!

Did you check out the link? Crazy doesn't describe what that poor cop witnessed.

[mrs.bass46703]

I see a connection with money Mrs. Bass. When it is a National Sports figure, Entertainer, or Politician, they get the headlines over the little girl that was decapitated by her brother. Why? Because people want to know more info about the popular names than they do about an unknown little 5 yr old. And...as Matt said...they print what will sell papers.

Nationally known names in newsprint, sell papers...a little 5 yr old or a 17 yr old who no one knows....does NOT sell papers. UNLESS they can dice it up with a racial slant, which in this case obviously didn't apply.

Harsh truth isn't it?

yes take the natile halloway or elizabeth smart cases for examples. They came up missing so much time was put into thier stories. While a yound black female missing around the same time{it was on awm once} got alot less attention and has all but been forgotten. People are still talking about natile years later.A t.v. moive and everything. The parents of liz and natile both had money. The little black girls mom was a single mom on welfare. Thats just wrong.

[hairypumper]

Most news echoers just take what the AP gives them.