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Originally posted by TheCommodoreAfro@Oct 15 2004, 03:10 PM
Actually, I disagree. So I'll spell it out, though I fear being labelled a fringe element, which you recently seem to use in abundance to dismiss opinions that lie outside your own.
- Information should not be guided.
There. You said guided information is good, because maybe it somehow provides some lovely wonderful neutral point.
But if people are dying, the news is thus. By telling media outlets that they should just tell a happy story, shucks, that just sorta goes against the grain of telling stories, now doesn't it.
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- Information should not be guided.
There. You said guided information is good, because maybe it somehow provides some lovely wonderful neutral point.
No. I didn't say guided information is good.
I said I can't stop someone or some institution from saying: "Please print a nice story." If they want to ask, that's their business.
A responsible media will ignore the request or even report it, as we saw with the two original links provided by Lanny, and get on with their own business.
As I noted in my original reply, government trying to control spin is hardly a bulletin in any country. And, I have news for you, it would extend down right to hospital boards in small communities.
Everyone wants to control spin. Everyone asks. That's their business.
Whether or not its heeded is another thing. That's the point.
As an example, Theo Fleury's substance abuse issues were probably known among Calgary media but never reported, likley by mutual consent. Should it have been a public issue? Did it help or hurt the Flames that it wasn't?
Cowperson