A Bit of Media Savvy, Please!

He said much of the same (about all media).

Suggesting the alternative to what the media is pushing is usually looked at as conspiracy theory most a lot of the time it’s actually the truth. Media has too much financial benefit to just take them at their word and unfortunately when you realize they’re FOS you really can’t prove it because the manufactured truth has morphed into the assumed truth.

Solid read and rec’d

good post. You have to sift through every story and think critically. You can’t mindlessly watch the news. Your are right on!!

doubly so in light of the ubiquitous “jets hype” meets “miami dissed” plus “nonsensical babbling” fanposts that so often dominate these pages.

Anyway, it is a fascinating subject and one I’d love to discuss at length. However, my experience being on this blog for several years is that any such discussion would likely degenerate into political wranglings, accusations of all sorts – typically with the suffix “ism” or “ist”, and the levying of conspiracy theories in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

As a former member of the Radio Media, I agree 100%. There is a large misconception (cue post by DB) about the media currently. Many people the Media are around to keep us updated on the news, and happenings globally, or by sport, entertainment etc…. This is actually false.

For many years now the media is simply another form of Entertainment. While currently events are reported through media sources, the fact is, prior to reporting, they pick and choose which stories are more likely to elicit an emotional response from viewers and readers alike. Those stories are headlined, while other stories are pushed back.

Watch your local TV News. The first 26-30 minutes of every single nightly broadcast is negative news. The bad stuff, crimes, disasters, etc. Then they start to mix in the occasional feel good story, and close out the the newscast usually with something silly. Why? Because we as people feed off the negative news, and if we ran the good news stories first, most people would change the channel.

Eliciting an emotional response draws viewers and readers alike. Those numbers are then translated to marketability, and advertising revenue. Which is the bottom line.

You deserve a “Matty” on this one!

What you say is do dead on that these and other reasons are why I usually don’t give the MSM much credibility (even NFLTA…remember all the hype about Jay Cutler last year? Favre Watch?)…yet it used to be sports media was at least a bit more credible. Likely still is, but keeping these issues constantly in focus (I mean, three days of TO joins the Bengals???) gives the sports media the same black eye the rest of the Mainstream media has…or is it just there is nothing else to report on?

I doubt it. But TO to the Bengals, Jets “Super Bowl” nonsense and Rex Ryan, and Favre Watch “make better stories” than, say, why won’t Hartline get with the cops about his truck (now that’s story I would like to see resolved, for Hartline’s sake).

And the wisdom of “who benefits” with media stories, believe me, isn’t just for Marxists! As I am NOT a Marxist (!), that way of looking at the media ought to be how folks look at all media stories (except maybe the weather)

Can I quote Micky Knox from NBK, " your not even a human being,…. your a media person"

Silver did a hatchet job on Ireland

http://www.thephinsider.com/2010/4/27/1448037/jeff-ireland-and-joe-mccarthy

I guess that bmakes me Blogist.

Well, I think we all need to stay open minded on these guys. Like us, these guys are just doing their jobs. Even during the dead of the football offseason, they still need articles to report about because it is their job. For all we know, they may go to their bosses and voice their opinions they don’t think an article should be written only to be told by the boss to publish it. While I think a lot of the things they write are premature judgements, I do understand they have a job. It also stinks, but bad news does sell better than good news.

levels of responsibility and quality. news editors think differently than sports editors who think differently than business editors. we might keep in mind how much has changed and is changing that we now take for granted. 24 hour multiple sports channels with each day demanding competition with every other channel? it used to be a couple metro papers, a wire reporter, and some radio. very little internal ‘drama’ made the air. now there’s time and space to get into every possible conflict.
isn’t it sports that’s the entertainment, and sports media mainly part of that industry?
it doesn’t seem at all surprising that one media would run different stories on the same guy, dez bryant. the media doesn’t claim to have everything figured out. its reporting is ongoing. conspiracy? not sure “the media” has its act together or cares enough to go into much deep conspiracy on sports teams, except it they are defending their hind quarters on a story.

Like it or not, the Ireland / Bryant story was relevant and important. It wasn’t made up. Nobody denied it. That story needed to be told. And the writer of that story, Mike Silver, should benefit from it. He is the one that did the work and broke a story that actually happened.

Honestly, some of the recent posts I’ve read haven’t been the best mostly because there hasn’t been much goin’ on. But this is a really good/original post. Nice job.

Rec’d

I’ll rec this to keep it up and so everyone can read it. Not all that you see is the truth and it takes judgment and a little common sense to breakthrough media mainstream garbage once in awhile because that is alot how our everyday lives are formed…
 
One thing is for sure, all the nonrespect of the Fins from the media means NOTHING! We are the knowledgeable ones who know our players and we believe we can be a championship contender, no matter what the newspapers and websites say!

Is an example of media manipulation as well. Reports surfaced that he was retiring, and they may not be valid, as everyone around him and around the team have refuted them. With all this, it isn’t the news report that is getting the blame (so far), it is Brett.

People paint Favre as an attention seeker. In fact, someone over on Daily Norseman said his most unbreakable record was “Biggest Media Whore”. But from my perspective, it is the news outlets that create this, constantly badgering him for comments (where he gives no conclusive answers, and is portrayed as a waffler) and follow him around when he practices with high school kids.

Again, I could be wrong, but when you really pay attention “Favre Watch” seems to have hurt Brett’s legacy as much as anything he has done.

PFT came to mind to me with Forio constantly putting out garbage that the mindless posters eat up.