Unfortunately the Dirty Digger (owner of Faux News) now seems to be a sponsor
for our new Government. I’m not talking about money changing hands, but
ministers seem to favour policies that Murdoch favours.
But also video sites are desperate to generate traffic to their pages on the
Internet, providing teasers to sensational content from any pages where they
can post. I no longer click on videos unless the content is definitely of
interest – such as the Swiss chap flying his jetpack over Dubai:
http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/5/11/8587941/jetpacks-yves-rossy-dubai-balloon-boy
Chris
> On 13 May 2015, at 08:55, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think the video news media currently are doing the equivalent of
> shouting, "Fire!" in a crowded theater. It's all scare tactics and no
> context. I've pretty much given up on counting the number of times many TV
> news reports are wrong or worse--deliberately misleading--in any given
> week. And Faux (Fox) News is just cheap fiction for the easily mislead--the
> modern equivalent of the penny dreadfuls.
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