re overreacting was re once tapped your code is no good any more in article c el i rahul net dhesi rahul net rahul dhesi writes in rwing uucp pat rwing uucp pat myrto writes how come the media is not telling about the provisions of the clipper decision how can the bulk of the people be informed when the media refuses to do it the answer to your second question lies in the way you phrased the first one the media is the medis isn t is the media are media means more than one medium there are thousands of publications some say this some say that how can the bulk of the people be informed when they won t read informative publications because much of the public aren t even aware of the names of informative publications look at the wealth of material on the typical newsstand unless the person is working in some kind of technical environment with the usual trade journals all they ever see is the media note media in this context is the popular media tv radio daily newspapers and such publications as time newsweek and all that and they all say pretty much the same thing i see most of them being in the range of center left to far left and generally supportive of pie in sky we will take care of you think for you cradle to grave there seems to be an air of arrogance that the individual is not capable of understanding major issues so the media doesn t bother to inform them as with clipper for example or tells the people how to interpret events in others what is lost sight of is that the people are not good at understanding things because they are not told accurate information about them it is a lot to expect of the people for them to be clarirvoyant for example i would have been unaware of clipper had i not picked it up on usenet how much of the population has usenet let alone internet access for access to better publications the person has to spend time digging many folks especially who work long hours have families etc do not have time to go digging and many are not yet aware things are wrong so are not motivated to dig not saying its right just saying that is the way things are people aren t upset about things when they aren t told and the less than objective media is a major contributer to the problem and then compound that with an attitude of arrogance in the civil service bureaucrats politicians that act as if the person without political connections or deep pockets potential contributer should have few if any rights being a resource to be used by those in control for their polticial or financial gain some law enforcement agencies act as if they regard the common person with a rather intense degree of contempt peons that are supposed to do what they are told and get very nasty when someone questions them the media pundits editors etc tend to fall into those with privilege and tend to not be upset by the current state of affairs the fellow in dc who shot the swimmer in his jacuzzi for daring to swim in it with an illegally owned gun violating the law he pushed to be foisted on everyone else ends up walking where a less well connected person would have been crucified a typical example of one standard for us a much more restrictive standard for other folk perhaps i am not real eloquent in expressing this but the solution sure as hell is not to make it harder for people to find out what is going on or dismiss their concerns because one happens to be in a position where one feels they are exempt or insulated such as that hypocrite of a journalist in dc described above one notices that these less than complimentary points about that double standard was not covered in the media i feel the reason was it dovetailed with their political views on the subject and it involved a brother journalist isn t it time for our objective media the main source of info for the average person to start being what they claim to be instead of spin doctors for the statist elements rahul dhesi dhesi rahul net also dhesi cirrus com pat rwing uucp without prejudice ucc pat myrto seattle wa if all else fails try uunet pilchuck rwing pat wisdom only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and i am not sure about the former albert einstien
