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Thread: Current Political rhetoric/ speech/etc.
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01-19-11, 10:34 AM #22
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Political mean-spiritedness and personal attacks are nothing new...I mean, didn't Thomas Jefferson call John Adams a hermaphrodite? To which Adams responded that if Jefferson got elected that your children will be raped and your wife will be murdered...
Extreme rhetoric isn't new. That doesn't excuse it...but lets not act all shocked when it happens. The problem is that as a society we still largely condone it.
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01-19-11, 02:33 PM #23
I don't think anybody is "all shocked" about the rhetoric. I'm thinking most just aren't comfortable with the level that it is at along with the frequency. It seems a bit more like people are trying to make an attempt at taming it a little bit.
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01-19-11, 02:59 PM #24
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I think the 24/7 news cycle that the cable news networks bring also ups the frequency with which we hear what people say. If a public figure says something "sensitive" then it will be heard 30,000 times online and on TV for the next 3 weeks. Imagine what the early founding of this country would be like if cable news existed...what a nightmare.
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01-19-11, 03:59 PM #26
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The problem with Cable News Networks is that they try to operate 24/7.
The problem is there is not enough content to report locally, nationally or internationally.
Plus the try to "hype" things up and make reporting the news entertaining which in itself is difficult to do and not required.
The news is designed to be informative service. The problem its has become a source of entertainment and infrequent is wrong plus is full personal views and opinions.
Very rarely do you see a Local New Stations Editor/Chief give an "Op-Ed or Editorial Review" on a news piece or new story effecting the community.
You get nothing but that with CNN, Fox, MSNBC and other so called news networks.Last edited by digital; 01-19-11 at 04:05 PM.
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01-19-11, 05:40 PM #27Re: Current Political rhetoric/ speech/etc.
its the same with Natural disasters, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't look at ways to reduce the random deaths, or reduce the natural disasters (in the sense of better warning systems, and not building next to an active volcano etc. basically reducing life loss from it).
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