re: #28 Spocomptonite

I’d put the blame on simple, malleable minds rather than the free press. Whatever the initial cause, having it happen once in history should be enough to teach a lesson; having it happen twice is just ignorant and the fault of ignorance.

No silly, it’s called making money… you make it sound like the press is to stupid to be aware of what they are doing, and you make it sound like the public doesn’t understand that what they are being fed. Both sides, all sides, are well aware of the game that is being played, and it works out well for everyone. The media (and that includes mass entertainment) pulls in the receipts and the people get to here and see what they want.

It’s nothing new, it goes much further back than the contemporary version named “Yellow Journalism.” It’s a fact of history as far back as the Greeks and Romans.