The MEDIA's Scale of Attention for Types of Deaths
On a scale of 1 to 100, how important are the following types of deaths to MEDIA news broadcasters in the U.S.?- Celebrity or athlete murdered = 100
- white girl high school age or younger = 100
- Girl of any other race, high school age or younger = 0
- Tens of thousands die during a natural disaster outside the U.S. = 45
- Hurricane hits U.S. = 100
- Hurricane hits Honduras = 15
- Forest Fires in California = 95
- Celebrity dies of old age = 45
- 100's die in the Middle East due to suicide bomber = 15
- Suicide bomber who died = 25
- A school shooter commits suicide after killing fellow students and/or teachers = 65
- Victims of school shooter = 15
- Criminal executed in the U.S. = 20
- A soldier dies while in Iraq or Afghanistan = 5
- Police officer shot while on duty = 30
- Worker dies instantly in industrial accident = 2
- Worker dies instantly in a mine collapse, but is believed to be alive until his body is discovered weeks later = 55
- Person stoned to death for committing adultery in a foreign land = 1
- Death by car accident on a highway for an ordinary citizen = .5
- Death by car accident for a Princess = 100+
- Chinese dissident dies of starvation in jail and then his organs are harvested = 0-
posted by Tony @ Thursday, November 29, 2007
2 Comments:
The general public will continue to be hoodwinked, manipulated, and ultimately have their perceptions influenced by the mainstream media(MSM)until the end of civilization.
As someone who used to work behind the scenes at a major cable network, I can vouch that my producer had a scale similar to the one you posted.
Thanks to longtime respected figureheads like Walter Conkrite and Dan Rather here in the U.S., people have a tendency to...BELIEVE EVERYTHING THEY SEE AND HEAR on the news (it's worse in other countries).
People fail to realize- and don't want to ever be aware- that the MSM is a business. John Q. Public likes to make fun of pro wrestling for being "fake", and the MSM is happy to support that notion, but the real joke is on him! Politics, MSM, religion: all out to make a profit from John Q. Public.
yeah why is the malibu fire store on the news every week, anyway? hollowood acters pulling strings for favors to get on tv?
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