Isn't time that we understand that mainstream media is limited?

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We as in the everyday people

Sure but that does not mean the mainstream media shouldn't improve

The thing is though that the everyday person can't attend these conferences

And if people can't subscribe to these journals , they can be expensive , then where do they get the info

Your suggestion is not very practicable , for most people

Non-sequitur

Sure that all well and good

CNN , is not the place for indepth reporting , BBC , I can agree with

But what of the people , as I mentioned before , who can' t afford to pay for these news papers

This not about me here

What it is about is just informing the general public about the goings on in the world other than the so called " top stories "

Hence why I have turned to alternative media

 

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Sure they can. Most just don't want to.

Scientific American - $2.07 per issue
Science Daily - free on line
Science News - free on line

It's perfectly practical if you care enough to do it. If you can't be bothered you can watch CNN. Your choice.

 

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How do you know that ?

Good

True

It would be good though if the mainstream media makes this info more commonly known , whats the harm ?

 

Because I have personally attended many such conferences.

Make what known? That other sources are available? Pretty much everyone knows that.

Or are you saying that they should be forced to advertise the availability of competitors? That's a very bad idea.

 

What I'm saying it that , why not have a hour long program , say once a week , the talks about discoveries that are new , even have interviews with the people involved with these discoveries

With no bias

For instance how many people knew about stem cell research used in chronic heart patients...

 

Ask and ye shall receive!

http://sciencefriday.com/

 

Now if we could get mainstream media , TV to do the same , not a website

But a TV program on CNN , NBC , ABC , FOX and any other TV station you care to mention

So that , instead of a few thousand audience , we get millions

 

That's not a website, that's a radio station (NPR.)

Why force people to watch something they don't want to watch? There are plenty of science shows that are just a click away if people want to watch them. There's even an entire TV station dedicated to such shows.

 

True enough

It could be that they are bored with mainstream TV media because there is just nothing much more than politics

Boring after awhile really

To make TV more interesting is to change the format

I think thats what TV media needs to look into

 

Look young people are far more educated these days and when was the last survey done that asked the question " what interests you , what subjects would you like to see covered "

It seems to me that politics , while important , are just saturating the TV market , as well as murders , wars etc.

And are so redundant

And it seems to me that the TV media have given in to the internet rather than adapting to being far , far more interesting

In order to attract the young and some older people , TV media has to get more on the ball here

Thats what I think anyway

 

All that proves is that you don't know how to "follow the money." I'm not defending TV in ANY way but they sure still earn nice profits. By the way, did you know that a one-minute commercial during the Super Bowl sells for a cool 1/2 million dollars? Try watching the game and count the number of commercial spots.

 

So your argument is based on sports ?

I understand your point but its a limited vision of what TV could be when sports is not on

 

I wish TV had more science content on it.

But keep in mind that the reason that channels like FOX News have high ratings and the Discovery Channel has low ratings is that more people want to watch sensationalist infotainment than want to watch science. FOX News IS attracting young and old people alike - by showing death and destruction, starlet scandals, political follies etc. That's what people would rather watch.

 

I would like more science as well

People would rather watch negative TV because I think they are conditioned to do so by redundancy

 

It's a sad fact that hoi polloi enjoy senseless violence and detest actual information. We live in a society which is becoming increasingly philistine, perpetuated by corporate media and public schooling. Here in Australia we are fortunate to have 'cutting-edge' mainstream media, in some sense (ABC [Four Corners, Hungry Beast etc.] and SBS) but still suffer from pathetic drivel comparable to FOX (A Current Affair, 7pm Project). All in all, TV stations are going to pander to the interests of the many, the fact is that the many don't care about 'intellectual' topics.

 

In America, the liberal dominate media does not celebrate success, self reliance and critical thinking, but dependency, failure and emotional parroting. Dependency, failure, and parroting is not only useful for expanding a nanny state government, but also useful to the needs of merchants who find it easier to manipulate low information viewers, to sell products. The dumbing down of America helped both causes with liberal social policies making this possible.

What needed to happen to make this possible, was to downgrade the role of the traditional male into a he-she. The male of yesteryear was expected to think, be self reliant (fix the house) and work hard to support and protect his family. Now more and more males never leave childhood (party); children in adult bodies. Look at the inner city male. If the males are screwing off, there is more opportunity for the females.

Government compounds and promotes this by having a dual standard in law. For example, there is no such things as an all male school but there are still all female schools since only the male is evil. This is the forced and then media will spread the propaganda for the dumb down.

Males represent competition and team work. This was the basis for the golden generation. Culture now has the loser get a medal. After defeating Hitler in WWII, today we would give him a trophy for just trying; muslim terrorists and media trophy. Grades in college are inflated. The result is a make-up job (female culture ) to create the illusion one is better than reality.

The solution is to remove all sexist and racist laws created by the expanding dependency government. The last two generations of he-she's have not done any of the things the law suggests, due to the law. These laws are discriminatory based on low information propaganda. As long as the dumb down continues, the propaganda will make it harder to see the law is unconstitutional; does not provide for equal protection under law, since it favors demographics.

If we allow nature to run its course the balance would return. Artificial allows the dumb down.

 

You'd hate our house. My wife and I share the various duties of fixing the house, working to support the family etc. I guess that makes me a he-she and her a she-he.

Since I went to an all-male school, you'd probably hate the place I grew up as well.

Like what?