Beware the media beat-up

by Samela | July 24, 2007 at 06:27 pm
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A few months in the USA and I am not sure if I am quaking in neurotic psychosomatics or I am simply shivering with resentment.

Day in and and day out, the US media warns us of things which are just about to do us lethal damage. There are new poisons in common foods, terrible perils in simple activities, what was good for us yesterday is dangerous today...

Let's see. What's new this week? Tomatoes that were good for you are now not good for you? Sunscreen that was safe is now hazardous. Sun that was hazardous is now life-giving. Soda drinks are bad for your heart... 

 The American consumer market dies a zillion little deaths every day - thanks to the mass media.

Truth is that most of these health scare stories are insubstantial with only a slim margin of truth. They are the beat-ups of the desperate news media. Media sets itself rules. It will have a health story every day - whether or not there is a valid health story around. Health rounds people are sent to find a something, anything...the more sensationalist and worrying potential they cam beat out of it, the better for the ratings. The hapless reporters do as they are told, scratching to find infotaining half truths and, hey presto, there is another pompous-sounding health scare story doing the media rounds.

The constant browbeating of the trusting and not profoundly informed masses empowers the media - and also its important supporters, the pharmaceultial companies.

The pharmaceutial companies bombard the public with ads for drugs while the news media bombards the people with illnesses.

 Is there a pattern here?

Sure thing. 

 

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Brian A Kennedy
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at 04:42 on July 25th, 2007

Samela, I totally agree -- the nanny-state stuff is getting ridiculous!

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stephena

This article and its writer are to be commended. If nation's were living organisms, the news media would constitute the histamines of those poor afflicted bodies they "serve". Histamines, which cause no end of irritation from otherwise harmless allergens, actually prevent the allergic person from willingly experiencing and becoming accustomed to or handling the environmental factors to which his body is erroneously reacting. In bee sting deaths, it is not the poison from the bee that kills the subject, but rather the anaphylactic shock and respiratory collapse caused by vast quantities of histamines relased from a reactive and hypersensitive body. And when not actually causing death, these irritants often create sufficient misery to effectively mask the actual source of the affliction.


Dangerous or diseased conditions, when actual, require courage, understanding, responsibility and unoccluded observation of the true facts and causes. When not intentionally overlooked or made to appear irrelevant, these distinctively human capabilities are so effective, that they are often (by mere inspection alone), enough to completely mitigate or resolve any and every situation capable of affecting any of us anywhere. This is so true, you will notice that they are very last factors to ever be investigated or reported on by the oppressive and complicit news a health industries, who actively campaign against any awareness or consistent application of these, our most formidable, effective and free human qualities. For if our nation were ever to recapture its true historic identity as ethical, cooperative, courageous, self-reliant and able individuals, the American Dream might well become the American Reality again. And this potential is currently so huge and imminent, it takes the combined and concerted efforts of every 24 hour international news agency, amply over-financed by their promotion of pharmaceutical antidepressants, to get us to believe otherwise.


Thank you for your article!

stephena
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at 17:32 on August 1st, 2007

Samela, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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