http://pdberger.com/texas-washout/ The blog of a British freelance writer living in New York Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:21:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://pdberger.com/texas-washout/#comment-58178 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:02:21 +0000 http://pdberger.com/texas-washout/#comment-58178 The media always makes things seem worse than they really are. (It makes we think if I went to Iraq I wouldn't hear a single gun shot.) Remember the babies being raped and the corpses being eaten in New Orleans after Katrina? Or was that babies being eaten and corpses being raped? Well you get the idea. The media's number one job is to exaggerate and frighten the public. How else will it sell papers and get TV ratings? The media always makes things seem worse than they really are. (It makes we think if I went to Iraq I wouldn’t hear a single gun shot.) Remember the babies being raped and the corpses being eaten in New Orleans after Katrina? Or was that babies being eaten and corpses being raped? Well you get the idea. The media’s number one job is to exaggerate and frighten the public. How else will it sell papers and get TV ratings?

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