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  Posted By: kenfromillinois @ 04/30/2009 3:32:50 PM

  The below average intelligence people who use the WEB are simply copying the techniques of the mainstream media. Sensationalism is first ... truth is last. Between there is bias, innuendo, and lies. The WEB just looks like today's paper! No wonder people are canceling their newspapers at the rate of 6% per year. I'm surprised circulation is dropping faster. Then again, my wife gets the paper for the Soduku , Crossword, and the Bridge Hand. I like the funnies! Don't read the sports anymore ... sports analysts are the lowest form of journalism. I can turn on ESPN, mute the volume, and watch the scores all day. The front page - the Chicago Tribune fills have of it with a useless picture or ad! Any room for words are usually filled with biased innuendo, stupid no depth reporting, or the "Miracle Saves Miners" headline. So people on the WEB are just doing the same thing news media types have been doing for years. With the advent of spell and grammar checkers, everybody has the same skills as a journalist; the skills are automated into the software you use. Truth, in-depth analysis, unbiased wording, level headed thinking are all characteristics not found in the media.

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  Posted By: news_editor @ 03/04/2008 12:36:05 AM

  So perhaps that is where the line of shame can end too! Perhaps, people can decide for themselves what must be kept private, and if they as I have been trashed in this way will see that it can't really kill them, they have to choose to die, and not die. If your message is that important that you are willing to risk this and take the heat you go on and say what needs to be said. If that doesn't stop it then you work around it and if that doesn't stop it you use other venues and still yet if that doesn't stop it you risk it all and let the whole truth out and then say to h*ll with it first make sure it is worth it to you, but we are actually responsible for what we do and say aren't we? We can all be shamed, that is true, it takes a person of integrity to get over it, it is unfortunate that while we are going through this kind of a thing some won't be able to just get over it. Thinking about that little girl that committed suicide over this, was it her fault or theirs? I think it is wrong, but like you say it can't be stopped, right? To stop it would be to censor free speech. So be ready to deal with it is all that I know to say. I suppose as writers we learn as we go.

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