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Mazer · 31-01-07, 06:00 PM

Nah, C-SPAN's viewership could increase 1000% and they'd still have poor ratings. But I'm betting NPR's audience will double in size. In fact any news outlet could increase its ratings just by implying that Iraq is a mess and Bush is a failure, and if they're interested in increasing their advertising rates then that's exactly what they'll do. Due to the increase in negative reporting the public will be tricked into thinking things are far worse than they actually are, and eventually reporting bad news all the time will become so profitable that it will become utterly impossible to tell what's really going on. At that point reality will be replaced by what some people call hyperreality, an entirely fictitious construct that most people cannot distinguish from the real thing. Mass delusion ensues.

Or has that already happened?

But all that aside, McCain is being a good Republican now as he was then, and his buddy Feingold is no different. I hate to say it but the only guy with any guts at all—besides Bush—is Joe Lieberman. The rest are all politicians, and you can't expect any elected official to stick to his guns in a place like Washington, D.C.

31-01-07, 06:00 PM	#7
Mazer Earthbound misfit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Moses Lake, Washington Posts: 2,563	Nah, C-SPAN's viewership could increase 1000% and they'd still have poor ratings. But I'm betting NPR's audience will double in size. In fact any news outlet could increase its ratings just by implying that Iraq is a mess and Bush is a failure, and if they're interested in increasing their advertising rates then that's exactly what they'll do. Due to the increase in negative reporting the public will be tricked into thinking things are far worse than they actually are, and eventually reporting bad news all the time will become so profitable that it will become utterly impossible to tell what's really going on. At that point reality will be replaced by what some people call hyperreality, an entirely fictitious construct that most people cannot distinguish from the real thing. Mass delusion ensues. Or has that already happened? But all that aside, McCain is being a good Republican now as he was then, and his buddy Feingold is no different. I hate to say it but the only guy with any guts at all—besides Bush—is Joe Lieberman. The rest are all politicians, and you can't expect any elected official to stick to his guns in a place like Washington, D.C.