media responsible for riots?

Over the past few days we have heard quite a lot about the riots in Bal­ti­more MD.

The one thing you have not heard is how much respon­si­bil­i­ty does the Media have in report­ing and per­haps inflam­ing riots to take place.

It is a fine line.

On one hand you have a pub­lic that should know when they might be in dan­ger of phys­i­cal harm, this is some­thing to con­sid­er but at what point does report­ing the news become pos­si­bly harm­ful to the pub­lic.

That is the ques­tion, words have mean­ing, when you use words that cre­ate prob­lems with blame and assign­ing labels and speak­ing in gen­er­al­i­ties when it would be bet­ter to speak specif­i­cal­ly.

You can hear the bias in the words the media speak.

You hear words like hope­ful, which sug­gests a neg­a­tive.

You hear that when the Media talks about repub­li­can can­di­dates for the pres­i­den­cy.

You don’t hear that about demo­c­rat can­di­dates.

You hear things that sug­gest that just about all repub­li­can can­di­dates have a prob­lem that must be over­come, they say things like expe­ri­ence when the demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­dates have none or less than the repub­li­can can­di­dates.

It makes you won­der are we all just too stu­pid to notice that the media is play­ing God?

Per­haps that is the case but what if the media are the ones that are insane and what they believe is wrong…

Also makes you think right?

The Media want you to buy prod­ucts and ser­vices that adver­tise on their net­works yet, they con­stant­ly insult your intel­li­gence just before and after a com­mer­cial plays.

Makes you won­der, how smart those adver­tis­ers real­ly are…

Are adver­tis­ers real­ly that stu­pid?

They spend mil­lions for a few sec­onds of prime time adver­tis­ing yet the media insult the very cus­tomers that they hope to reach…

How dumb do you have to be to not real­ize how igno­rant it is to spend that much mon­ey and not pay atten­tion to what the media are doing when they insult the intel­li­gence of those buy­ers that those adver­tis­ers want to reach out to.

When you think about that it makes you won­der, quite a lot about these com­pa­nies that spend so much mon­ey and yes some of the peo­ple that watch those com­mer­cials are actu­al­ly stock hold­ers and those stock hold­ers are being insult­ed by the media.

What kind of busi­ness mod­el is this?

Im curi­ous because it looks like a the kind of busi­ness mod­el that fails.

If your spend­ing big mon­ey adver­tis­ing, why not let those peo­ple in the media know that your not stu­pid.

Your not so igno­rant that you can’t see when your intel­li­gence is being insult­ed.

Or per­haps you are and its the stock hold­ers that need to start mak­ing some noise, why throw away your adver­tis­ing bud­get on an audi­ence that are too dumb to know when they are being manip­u­lat­ed?

Makes you won­der about these CEOs that get paid mil­lions but spend adver­tis­ing dol­lars friv­o­lous­ly.

Who knows if some­one stands up and tells the media that they don’t have any clothes on some­one might start treat­ing view­ers with respect instead of such dis­dain.