Disinformation as a distraction. More specifically how our society is geared to "mass distraction"

Please do carry on.....let's talk.

Please elaborate on your subject matter.

dont look at the man behind the curtain kinda stuff, i mean imagine the most hienous criminal acts. They make news becuase it strikes a chord with the any decent person and throw a few extra criminals show less of the happenings that mean something. i dont have many examples becuase its impossible to prove i just wanted discussion =p

I've always found it interesting how huge media stories that everyone is talking about or worried about just suddenly seem to disappear or get forgotten. It wasn't long ago that the news seemed to have nothing to talk about other then the bird flu and now I hardly hear it mentioned yet nothings been done about it. The news have just stopped talking about it.

Opinions?

[edit on 15/11/2007 by WitchChild]

information overload = distraction

You can't focus on everything so if the media throws enough out there you wont be able to focus on just one thing!

Here is a very small list of things that hit the radar then vanished:

- Anthrax
- Flesh eating virus
- Osama Bin Lade
- Steve Fosset
- North Korea missle issue
- Guatanamo prison camp
- California wildfire arson charges
- Chandra Levy
- Madalene ( english girl in spain )
- The dead ( missing ) coed in Aruba
- Anna Nicole Smith
- Mission Accomplished

WAY too many things to properly focus on.

Dorian Soran

tho im years late ... i agree media is focused on the happening now the if you dont know your left out clause ... if you dont hear it the day it comes out your sol .... i happen to thinkthat mistaken news stories are the best ... where they acclaim one thing and days later the topic is reversed

It seems to me that the media makes a big big deal out of issues that really are not important that a country needs to focus on. I always wonder what really is happening when a total year of television is following the trial of OJ Smith. Anna Nicole Smith took a couple of months to shred out the details. I remember sexual harassment and the court issues on television and the proper way to put the accent on har'
or ass'. Who cares. The Aruba gir, Jon Benet, it goes on and on--that is what America knows about American issues and politics. I am sure there were plenty of little girls murdered in any given year, tragic but not televised, and so on an so on

Why is the media just another soap opera, is that all we amount to as Americans?