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Can the general public be told & sold anything....

Posted by newblogmogul • 9/03/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: general public, hollywood, politics, sports

When you turn on the TV there is a new headline everyday or every week that involves someone from sports, politics and Hollywood.

Every time something happens and it goes public they will either do a news conference or an interview in which they deny that they did not commit the crime or they have been falsely accused of the situation at hand.

This is the formula that they all follow and you can bet that someone will repeat the process again.

So my questions is,
Can the general public believe everything that they are told & sold in the news conferences and interviews?

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9/03/09

Jaybetee

I personally don't believe anything anyone on TV says until they prove it. All public figures deny any wrong doing hoping that if they're actually guilty they can slither out of it somehow. News channels run stories based on less than solid facts just in order to fill up the 24 hour news cycle. I find TV journalism pretty laughable, especially local news.

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1. 9/03/09
  
  newblogmogul
  
  I agree TV journalism is pretty hilarious when it comes to reporting the true facts about any wrong doing.
2. 9/04/09
  
  FaithfulinPrayer
  
  I'm with you. Don't believe what any of them say. Check out the source. Read the bills. etc. There is a quote in The Mist.
  
  You scare people badly enough, you can get them to do anything. They'll turn to whoever promises a solution, or whatever.
9/03/09

newblogmogul

At the end of the day they are still human but since they are celebrities, the public places them on a pedestal as if they can do no wrong.

Something has to happen for them to get down off of there high horse and bring them back down to reality. It works for some but the others never learn and it destroys there career.

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9/03/09

amybyrd21

I personally belive that there is part of the population that will but anything. I bet if I came up with something great to do with hog poop I would make a fortune. There was someone at one point in time selling cocoburs as porcupine eggs to tourist and making a killing and photos of cotton feilds as grit fields and people beliving him.

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9/03/09

ThriftShopRomantic

What's the saying?: "A sucker is born every minute."

For every incident, there will be a chunk of people who will believe it, contrary to any and all evidence and merely because they want... perhaps need... to believe.

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1. 9/03/09
  
  newblogmogul
  
  Lol nice quote.
2. 9/03/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  I had to look it up to see who said it-- P.T. Barnum, of Barnum and Bailey Circus.
  
  Guess he knew his audience.