DukeNukeEm Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 (edited) I chose this video because this is FOX, I dont even need to go into the connotations that surround this network and people's feelings on it, should be common knowledge. What I'm looking for here is input from you guys, is the internet fueling a radicalism in the US? Is this radicalism leading to the demonization of the large news networks with something to lose? If we continue to attack legitimate media sources can that impair our societal moral keel? Haven't been posting much. Looking forward to someone saying something insightful. Edited June 14, 2009 by DukeNukeEm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Modern media is connecting people who otherwise would not have gotten together. Take a few thousand wackos, or a few thousands visionaries, spread them out around the country fifty years ago, and they may never have met. Now, they meet, daily, and there is danger, and strength, in numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 The internet is a communication tool which can be utilized by nearly all the population in the US. Just as with the invention of the printing press, radical ideas as well as mainstream can be spread easier. The internet also allows fast and easy access in the form of email for people to send out a message to an organization like FOX news. The ease of sending a fairly anonymous email to FOX news, complaining about something, adds a level of convenience over the old process of writing a letter, getting a stamp, going to mailbox, and sending. This convenience is going to lead to greater levels of feedback. I'm also sure the economic downturn has increased anger in the population. As far as the MSM losing credibility, they don't need the internet for that to happen. Their reporting is garbage a lot of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 The Internet is like an interactive echo chamber. Actual intellectual debate that doesn't involve insulting people is rare to the point of being unheard of in certain places. People just go where they want to go to see what they want to see, and they don't let people challenge them. Example: I could go sign up right now for a right-wing message board and try to jump into a thread about Obama's birth certificate. I could tell the honest truth in a respectful way, i.e. Obama's birth certificate does exist and this has been confirmed by the hospital, but it's not being released because of various health privacy laws and they can't release it without Obama himself requesting it (calling attention to the fact that Obama frankly is ignoring their demands). I would get shouted down and run off the site, although it doesn't help matters that the only people that ever do things like that are trolls. The end result is you have all these people feeding into each other who really believe Obama is some secret stealth operative who is a non-US citizen, and they get released onto the rest of the internet to ramble incessantly about dumb s***. Often, you can tell where someone gets spoon-fed their information just by the words and phrases they use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Without the internet, we wouldn't be getting all this information from Iran. There is a government cotrolled media blackout. More venues, and more voices that can be heard, is often of great value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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