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MelanieAnne said:
I checked the Onion. Initially, I found it quite odd. What is it that everyone finds so wonderful about it?
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Because you know you can trust it! When you read the Onion, you know exactly what you’re getting.
 
Thomas_B said:
Oh, it’s a joke- the Onion is hilarious!
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That’s what I thought. I only had a few minutes this morning to take a look at The Onion, but a quick perusing gave me the impression that either:
  1. They’re pretty much making it all up, or
  2. They’re taking snippets of real quotes and putting them together in a way to intentionally make them satirical.
In the case of Giants/Patriots, I was wondering if both Coughlin and Manning had independently made several “almost” remarks over the course of several interviews, and The Onion pieced them together to make it appear as though it was one interview. The conclusion "We almost beat them before, and we can almost beat them again was definitely funny, but it would be even more so if I can locate the actual quotes!
 
Larry1700 said:
That’s what I thought. I only had a few minutes this morning to take a look at The Onion, but a quick perusing gave me the impression that either:
  1. They’re pretty much making it all up, or
  2. They’re taking snippets of real quotes and putting them together in a way to intentionally make them satirical.
In the case of Giants/Patriots, I was wondering if both Coughlin and Manning had independently made several “almost” remarks over the course of several interviews, and The Onion pieced them together to make it appear as though it was one interview. The conclusion "We almost beat them before, and we can almost beat them again was definitely funny, but it would be even more so if I can locate the actual quotes!
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I’m pretty sure they make them up out of whole cloth, like these:

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn’t Own A Television

CIA On Torture Memo: ‘We Need To Stop Writing This Stuff Down’
 
But I’m sticking with PBS, NPR, & the BBC… and the Onion 😉
While they take some money form big corporations they are not actually owned by one.
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I think it helps to have diverse financing for networks otherwise the temptation is always there for he who pays the piper to call the tune.
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If your news organization is full of committed Leftists you don’t need corporate money to influence news reporting. NPR is the only network where you can hear a poem about the “Palestinian resistance” and a commentator discuss abortion rights in a hushed voice with a wind ensemble playing in the background.:banghead:

The New York Times has had over 50 front page stories about Abu Ghraib, which could be the most overblown story in the history of news reporting. I think that the BBC.com went an entire year with an Abu Ghraib story on the front page. Have you read some of the attacks against the Pope and the Catholic Church of the BBC talking points, yet, every message is filtered.:mad:

The NYT gave a standby discount rate to MoveOn.org for a full page “General Betrayus” ad. The group should have paid $142,083, but was only charged $64,575. Moveon also got guaranteed placement for its standby price for the ad to appear the same day Petraeus warned Congress against a rapid withdrawal of troops from Iraq.:nope:

Rich Kaplan, the new CBS Evening News’ Executive Producer has been an advisor to Clinton and Al Gore… While head of CNN Kaplan stayed over the night in the Lincoln Bedroom, and played golf with President Clinton. Kaplan has had senior leadership positions at MSNBC and ABC, as well.:juggle:

A seeker of truth will try to get their news from a variety of sources. Sadly, the mainstream media usually only counts as one.

:tiphat:
 
Steelers_Rule said:
If your news organization is full of committed Leftists you don’t need corporate money to influence news reporting.
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most of the programing is midle of the road including a good deal of business reporting (although “Wait! Wait! Don’t tell me.” is my favorite.)
So if your organization is full of committed Rightists then the middle of the road appears “Leftist” 😉

The member stations of NPR are occasionally under criticism for heavy corperate underwriting (which IIRC approaches 50% ? I’ll have to check)
Those Lefties must have seriously deceived all those poor silly big corporations who don’t know any better than to give their money away to the wrong folks. 😉
Steelers_Rule said:
NPR is the only network where you can hear a poem about the “Palestinian resistance” and a commentator discuss abortion rights in a hushed voice with a wind ensemble playing in the background.
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So you’re admitting that the other networks don’t carry some things?
Why this bias? 😉
Steelers_Rule said:
The New York Times has had over 50 front page stories about Abu Ghraib, which could be the most overblown story in the history of news reporting.
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Well that is OT
But it was either the US government condoning mistreatment of prisoners or letting very junior personnel do something from the Lord of the Flies unsupervised, both of which are newsworthy especially in a war for hearts and minds.

Also, IIRC we are called to visit the imprisoned not torture them

Besides why the mention of the Times? :confused:
Steelers_Rule said:
I think that the BBC.com went an entire year with an Abu Ghraib story on the front page.
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the UK has a large immigrant population from the near east and south central Asia the BBC also broadcasts all over the world in parts of the old empire
It isn’t surprising that a story like that would be of interest
Steelers_Rule said:
Have you read some of the attacks against the Pope and the Catholic Church of the BBC talking points, yet, every message is filtered.
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Your criteria for selecting a news source require that you agree with everything they say?

What good is that?

We all live in the ghetto of the likeminded. Why should our new sources be so limited?
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The NYT gave a standby discount rate to MoveOn.org for a full page “General Betrayus” ad. The group should have paid $142,083, but was only charged $64,575. Moveon also got guaranteed placement for its standby price for the ad to appear the same day Petraeus warned Congress against a rapid withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
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Once again why speak of the Times? :confused:
Steelers_Rule said:
Rich Kaplan, the new CBS Evening News’ Executive Producer has been an advisor to Clinton and Al Gore… While head of CNN Kaplan stayed over the night in the Lincoln Bedroom, and played golf with President Clinton. Kaplan has had senior leadership positions at MSNBC and ABC, as well.
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You can’t report on ‘em if you don’t spend some time with them

But why the mention of CBS, CNN et al?
they weren’t on my list either :confused:
Steelers_Rule said:
A seeker of truth will try to get their news from a variety of sources. Sadly, the mainstream media usually only counts as one.
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Well, the world is a big place. Gathering the news takes time, money, & personnel. Obviously big organizations are going to exists and, since they are in business, they must appeal to the mainstream. So what are you going to do? 🤷

I’m not sure why “mainstream” has become a pejorative with some people.
Oddly enough NPR gets lumped in with the Mainstream but it (and its listeners) are also called elitists or otherwise biased. You can’t have it both ways either something is mainstream and most folks go along with it or it isn’t.
 
I don’t believe their is such a thing as a best news source, so I read everything. BBC, CNN, Guardian, FOX, as well as Iranian, Israeli, Syrian, Russian, Chinese, you name it, as well as various local papers.
 
Apparently some people don’t realise The Onion is a joke. Snopes had to debunk this story that the Make-a-Wish Foundation had been bankrupted by a child who asked for unlimited wishes. Apparent quite a few folks believed it.

snopes.com/humor/iftrue/makeawish.asp
 
didymus said:
Apparently some people don’t realise The Onion is a joke.
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After reading an article or two, it’s pretty obvious they’re jokes. However, the article on the Giants just made me wonder if there might be several real statements, made during separate interviews, which when put together would really lead to the “we can almost beat them again” conclusion.
 
didymus said:
Apparently some people don’t realise The Onion is a joke. Snopes had to debunk this story that the Make-a-Wish Foundation had been bankrupted by a child who asked for unlimited wishes. Apparent quite a few folks believed it.

snopes.com/humor/iftrue/makeawish.asp
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IIRC they did an article on China a few years ago
I forget what they said
something silly, typical Onion stuff
and the Chinese govenemt went ballistic
I suppose some forms of humor are hard to translate

and I’ve noticed that there are some people who just don’t do irony
 
What’s the lesson in the old story about the politician who cheated on his wife or got a speeding ticket, and the local newspaper that ran a front-page headline about it every day during an election.
 
Tim_Kirchoff said:
For some of these, the headline is enough.

Like this one: theonion.com/content/node/43014
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
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I love The Onion! They had a great article soon after 9/11 with the headline: “Terrorists shocked to find selves in hell” or something like that. It goes into graphic detail on the torments that the 19 hijackers were suffering. I’m sure it’s in the Onion archives online. Hilarious! Good stuff.

Oh, and FauxNews…in a word…stinks. Never watch it.
 
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