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[Dill]

(04-12-2018, 07:12 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: No matter how hard we try to unite. The media will be there to guarantee that doesn't happen. All people everywhere cannot be in the same place at the same time. The media can and it's big business for them to keep hatred forefront. I tell you, when I was in the military overseas, we were all one. We all got along great and called each other brothers and sisters. We carried each other. We triumphed and failed together. There was only 1 tv station we could watch and that was the armed forces network. They dont go there. Those were good times.

(04-12-2018, 07:12 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Hello Mr. Fred. Good to see you. The media does control what they broadcast, so do they report on police involvement in the community? No, not good business. Also, just so you know, not all police use racial profiling. I would guess the percentage is extremely small. However, they will report only the mostly bad and develop an opinion of the sorts that Fred can carry and distribute to everyone he knows so all his contacts now believe the police are evil.

Seems you may be complaining about capitalism here. The news organization that reports boring stories is unlikely to compete with one that reports murders and riots.   But mainstream, professional media organizations like the New York Times and the Washington Post  and CNN and MSNBC are not trying to "keep hatred forefront."  (There are news organizations that do that. Check out Breitbart for example.)  It is not their fault if a cop shoots an unarmed person.  

Seems to me, though, that local papers do very much report police involvement in their community.  If they don't, people wonder why and they lose readership.

But there is another consideration here as well. Sometimes--well, a lot of the time now--there are pressing national issues that people need to know about, and this may crowd other things off the news.  A policeman who shoots a child IS more important news than a police department that donates computers to the local 3rd grade, especially if there have been several such shootings in the span of a year.  And the local community knows/hears about donation, if the national community does not. So it's not like no one ever hears about that. We just don't hear about it on CNN. It is not really the job of national media to report on local do gooding--though some do occasionally.

PS  I am not sure the limiting of political views on AFN is something to be cheered. It implies that a thoroughgoing militarization of news, and perhaps US society, would be a good thing.  AFN shows Meet the Press, doesn't it? So it does "go there" a little.

PPS Who would watch AFN if other channels were available?