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Ted Talks: Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs.

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6/5/2008 9:39:58 PM

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Tajumera : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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530 days 14 hours ago...

Awww, come on, Anna Nicole is way sluttier than Africa.

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Nirah : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

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530 days 8 hours ago...

This is so true... Something most be done...

I say we kill all celebreties it get the news over with... that way when they are done talking about them... the only coverage they can do is important :D

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Tajumera : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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530 days 8 hours ago...

^ Nah, you could kill celebrities, but that wouldn`t end celebrity worship, more celebrities would just be created. What needs to happen is a fundamental change in culture, most people would need to learn to cope without America`s Next Top Hooker and get used to actively trying to learn as much as they could about life instead of relying on tv to tell them how to live. In other words, it requires effort, which is in short supply if obesity trends are anything to go by.

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lostperson : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

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530 days 1 hour ago...

thats why i stop watching my news from the tv and now get most of it from the net
cause every time i would change it to the news...they would be talking about american idol

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erico : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

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529 days 2 hours ago...

I do wish BMW would roll out some hybrid cars.

Also I`ve found pretty much all major news sources have bowed down to the awesome might that is celebrity news. I believe Anna Nicole was a story on the CBC and BBC tsk tsk...

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Papershark : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

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525 days 2 hours ago...

solution: make the Africans celebrities(give them slutty cloths and photograph them drunk staggering out of clubs)so when they get killed by war and famine... it`s news.

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shackle : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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521 days 2 hours ago...

Yeah I also watch overseas news when I do watch any "tv" at all.

You really would have to have something fundamentally wrong with you if you watch/trust any American news. Not saying overseas ones are perfect, but comparatively they are damn near.

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stndspec : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

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520 days 23 hours ago...

media producers, who (like everyone else) were already treading a course for as much control as they could get, basically flipped the hell out when they realized just how much they could get away with, especially over the last 20 years as digital tech replaced analogue and it just got so easy to put instant spin on stories.

This is a pretty major frontier in the struggle for man`s freedom on a global scale. And it isn`t what we thought it`d be. I mean, WE are big brother for one thing! That has worked out for us, not them. The gov`t wants superior control of these technologies to use to control us, but ultimately we are (and always will be) the ones inventing and using creatively those very technologies. Gov`t cannot keep up with us because of that, and so they put their cameras up on street corners, but we have them in our cel phones, both sides prepared to document the transgressions of the other. And there are way more citizens with cel cameras than street cams, and each one of us has the capability to take what we`ve seen and show the entire world in only seconds if we really had to. Gov`t relies on group thinking, and this is it`s chain. Gov`ts teeth are its individuals - those citizens like us who creatively think and can respond quickly with the same infinite potential.. they are trying to steer that ship of structure/procedure as agilely as possible, but it cannot ever be as fast as the individuals comprising a free public.

It is why scientology fails against Anonymous and it mirrors the same problem with amok gov`ts, so personally - I`m encouraged.

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Tada : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

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520 days 16 hours ago...

http://www.jibjab.com/originals/what_we_call_the_news

Bah, jibjab had this shit figured out a long time ago.

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ryanjm : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

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520 days 7 hours ago...

^^tl;dr

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Vizreel : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

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520 days 4 hours ago...

HOLY SHIT, ANNA NICOLE SMITH DIED??

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MANWHORE : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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518 days 15 hours ago...

OMG this is unbeivable? I figured with USA`s fantasticaly successful and friendly foreign policy Americans must know all there is to know about the World.

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mGoLos : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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518 days 10 hours ago...

"Is this what we want ... "

It`s not a question of what you want; it`s a question of what you get. Revolution now!!

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ChocobonSquall : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

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517 days 3 hours ago...

She was fat.

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