Comments on: “Sorry, it’s time to feel bad again – I’ve got a living to earn…” http://pegasusnlpblog.com/media_bad_news_manipulative NLP for people who like to... think for themselves! Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:50:18 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ruthie Culver http://pegasusnlpblog.com/media_bad_news_manipulative/comment-page-1#comment-912 Ruthie Culver Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:13:44 +0000 http://pegasusnlpblog.com/?p=629#comment-912 While employed as a fundraiser for an aids charity about 10 years ago, I got a big celebrity to agree to go to Africa to do a film for us. At this point the disease was spreading at an alarming rate with very few drugs available. Great news as, love celebrities or hate them, they give charities a big publicity boost they can't otherwise afford. But at a meeting with a terrestrial TV channel the commissioning editor said: "sorry, we've done AIDS'. Journalism ruled. While employed as a fundraiser for an aids charity about 10 years ago, I got a big celebrity to agree to go to Africa to do a film for us. At this point the disease was spreading at an alarming rate with very few drugs available. Great news as, love celebrities or hate them, they give charities a big publicity boost they can’t otherwise afford. But at a meeting with a terrestrial TV channel the commissioning editor said: “sorry, we’ve done AIDS’. Journalism ruled.

]]> By: Clare Denyer http://pegasusnlpblog.com/media_bad_news_manipulative/comment-page-1#comment-860 Clare Denyer Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:23:22 +0000 http://pegasusnlpblog.com/?p=629#comment-860 Watch the way TV news presenters swap from one persona to another when going from a \standard\ news item to one dealing with a tragedy you'll see them consciously shift their expressions & body language, and change tonality. It's like watching a puppet show! I was watching a channel I don't normally watch on a friends Freeview set and a newsreader who I guess was either inexperienced, or asleep at that particular wheel, launched into a story about a murder - forgetting to take off the huge toothy smile, still twirling the trim ankle in high heels and still doing chirpy \you're all stupid and I know it\ tonality. Half way through I guess someone screamed in her earpiece and she immediately switched to \sombre I really care, I'm attractive but serious, I empathise with everyone out there who might be affected by the news\ mode. It was farcical to watch. Watch the way TV news presenters swap from one persona to another when going from a \standard\ news item to one dealing with a tragedy you’ll see them consciously shift their expressions & body language, and change tonality. It’s like watching a puppet show! I was watching a channel I don’t normally watch on a friends Freeview set and a newsreader who I guess was either inexperienced, or asleep at that particular wheel, launched into a story about a murder – forgetting to take off the huge toothy smile, still twirling the trim ankle in high heels and still doing chirpy \you’re all stupid and I know it\ tonality. Half way through I guess someone screamed in her earpiece and she immediately switched to \sombre I really care, I’m attractive but serious, I empathise with everyone out there who might be affected by the news\ mode. It was farcical to watch.

]]> By: Tudor Barker http://pegasusnlpblog.com/media_bad_news_manipulative/comment-page-1#comment-858 Tudor Barker Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:29:28 +0000 http://pegasusnlpblog.com/?p=629#comment-858 There are far too many people trying to be Journalists, so any story is seen as something to be pumped up. There are many who have moved to the countryside, and we have to suffer their warped views on farming, stock keeping etc. This gives a very distorted and unrealistic vision of country matters. As to the matters in Haiti, why are reporters and their crews using crucial transport links and hindering the relief effort. Have they no conscience. OK rant over :-) Looked at from their point of view, they see themselves as crusaders of the news entitled to go aywhere and to use any method to disseminate the depressing stories. Tudor There are far too many people trying to be Journalists, so any story is seen as something to be pumped up.

There are many who have moved to the countryside, and we have to suffer their warped views on farming, stock keeping etc.

This gives a very distorted and unrealistic vision of country matters.

As to the matters in Haiti, why are reporters and their crews using crucial transport links and hindering the relief effort.

Have they no conscience.

OK rant over :-)

Looked at from their point of view, they see themselves as crusaders of the news entitled to go aywhere and to use any method to disseminate the depressing stories.

Tudor

]]> By: Jamie O'S http://pegasusnlpblog.com/media_bad_news_manipulative/comment-page-1#comment-852 Jamie O'S Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:20:30 +0000 http://pegasusnlpblog.com/?p=629#comment-852 Politics, Religion and Media - what more is there to say? Different means of exerting power over people isn't it? As for not needing doom and gloom in life, maybe best avoid the film The Road. I've never seen a film so utterly devoid of hope. Perhaps that is why it is worth watching. Politics, Religion and Media – what more is there to say? Different means of exerting power over people isn’t it?

As for not needing doom and gloom in life, maybe best avoid the film The Road. I’ve never seen a film so utterly devoid of hope. Perhaps that is why it is worth watching.

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