Global Warming

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Originally Posted by Fencewalker

I love how some people act like the "media" is an entity all of it's own and not made up of individual people. Sort of like "The Government" (que ominous music). For instance, the video linked has scientists (former head of NASA's meterological dept, one of the authors and contributors of the IPCC report as examples) among other people voicing their opinion. But since it was distributed via the media, we should ignore it?
Btw, how should people do their research if they don't avail themselves of the job the media does in informing? The internet is another form of "the media", what with online papers, radio stations, tv stations and blogs.

Just can't trust anybody, can we?

Generalized dismissal of an entire profession based on a cookie cutter stereotype may seemingly make life easier, but does a disservice to the actual individuals that make up said profession and makes the pursuit of knowledge and the truth a bit...Problematic.

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The Media is by definition the sum of all information mediums
So yes, the Media is an over generalization.
I would assume the intension was â??main stream mediaâ? or popular source media

Personally I donâ??t trust the media much at all. They constantly lie and mislead, on purpose or not (using old disproved research).

I source my information always from the source, usually scholarly journals to which I have a full subscription and access to all.

If you have taken media studies I would hope youâ??ve done a project comparing the scientific reporting of a study and the popular source reporting of the study.

I have and itâ??s troubling. The Mediaâ??s job isnâ??t to inform it is to make people read/watch/listen to them so they can get advertising dollars.

So they tell you what you want to hear not the truth (necessarily):
People like: concrete results, single causation, simile logical reasoning things that are of rare occurrences in the world.

I read the newspaper every day, not to inform myself but to see how the public is being informed.