Comments on: RIAA ’sue ‘em all’ project

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:47:46 +0000

My personal experience showed me how biased and sometimes, flat-out wrong the mainstream media are.
I work in a jail and see criminals all the time….and some as a result hear info directly from inmates and police and other corrections sources and I’m shocked how off-the-mark the media are many times.
Sometimes the media are not even close to the truth.
I think all people need to be very very aware of this.
Take stories on TV or radio with a bit of salt. Try to hear the same story from different sources too.
If the reporter doesn’t grasp the technical detailes, they will often get it wrong.
It’s actually kind of scarry. I’m glad my eyes are open to this now.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:47:11 +0000

Noticed the p2pnet report made it onto “The Feed” which is a segment on “The Attack of the Show” (G4/TechTV). Congrats, that’s some pretty wide coverage.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:26:07 +0000

The Sun, unbiased? Bang goes your credibility.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:32:34 +0000

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/09/18/1734258.shtml?tid=123&tid=99

Google picked up addict3d.org’s blurb on the slashdot story as well – http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=10620

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:31:05 +0000

I’m the same. I didn’t realise how biased and filtered the media reports were, until i noticed how one sided things like the santangelo vs elektra were.

Infact i consider myself to be quite conservative about a great many issues. But this is just rediculous. 98% of the traditional media is like this. Only reporting issues that don’t conflict with itself.

I live in the uk, and thought the sun newspaper was quite unbiased, but my opinion of them has changed because of just this. A constant biased word for word report of what the riaa/mpaa propaganda machines pump out.

I also started to look at exactly how many of the advertisements in the paper were from these same cartel sources. And there are alot. My bet is they don’t want to upset their paying clients.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:43:09 +0000

I think it is just when such articles come out that the average person is made aware of how carefully crafted and orcastrated the lamescream media is. It also makes one aware of just how much grease is put out by the cartels to keep it this way.

In reading between the lines, I am not the only one to come to this conclusion. Most with internet access are finding that the stories they are really interested in either have no counterpoint in lamescream or that when checking the facts on the net, the stories are extremely slanted in the presentation of that news to the public. Those that have checked have found lamescream wanting and are instead choosing to get their news from the net where it is likely they can recieve more unvarnished verisons.

Readership is down on newspapers. Surveys show that those that have internet access are spending less time in front of the tv. That means that viewership of both public and paid commercial tv is going down also. In otherwords people are discovering that commercial news and broadcast isn’t doing for them what they wish, so they are turning to the net for what they aren’t getting.

As a result of this, lamescream media is reporting blogs, making a presence on the net in hopes of snagging back some of the lost sheep that left, and the cartels are trying to use legal means to bring the internet under control of the watchful commercial world.

I rarely if ever go to national news sites, having learned this lesson of slanting news to what they wish presented and not what are strickly the facts without an ulterior motive. I can only assume that I am sort of Joe Six Pack in this and not setting any sort of trend.