On 06-14-03, ROY J. said:


RJ>DAVID NORTON wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJ> DN> On 06-10-03, ROY J. said:

RJ>RJ>DAVID NORTON wrote in a message to VERN HUMPHREY:

RJ>RJ>VH>My own experience is that good training and proper fire control
RJ>RJ>VH>are far more effective than spray and pray.

RJ>RJ>DN> Oh, sure, go ahead and ruin all the war movies!  

RJ>RJ>You don't think Hollywood has any credibility whatsoever,  do you?
RJ>RJ>I think that's a mistake that a lotta people make...    :-)

RJ>DN> I believe Hollywood has enormous credibility as a purveyor of 
RJ>DN> propaganda. 

RJ>The phrase "purveyor of propaganda" suggests that they are the
RJ>mechanism and that somebody else is providing the content,  or
RJ>setting the agenda,  or whatever.  This may be the case,  but if so
RJ>I'm not real sure as to where it's coming from and as to how
RJ>whoever's doing it is managing to set that agenda.

Easy, the folks with money (studios, banks, TV networks) who finance 
films and TV pick the films/programs they agree with and withhold funds 
from projects that don't represent their point of view.

Directors who become well known can select the projects that they want 
to work on, actors who are well known and have "box office" potential do 
the same.  Thus you have TV programs such as the West Wing, a non-stop 
dose of liberal, anti-gun propaganda so overt it's unwatchable.


RJ>It also seems like the "news" media have almost the same agenda,  or 
RJ>at least are on the same end of the political spectrum for the most 
RJ>part.

RJ>Makes you wonder...

Not really, in the 1930s through the 1980s the liberals and socialists 
made a concerted effort to take over the media and the schools.  Since 
the conservatives are primarily individuals who don't want to get 
involved and the liberals are primarily herd animals who DO want to be 
involved and to push their agenda, they easily succeeded and now we have 
faculty committees who won't allow a conservative to be hired in many 
schools, publishers who won't allow a conservative to be printed or 
aired, etc..

RJ>DN> But television has replaced motion pictures as the medium most 
RJ>DN> people see, IMHO that's a good thing.  TV requires so many hours
RJ>DN> of  programming that there's some room for other opinions.

RJ>Hmm.

RJ>DN> Notice I said "some"?

RJ>Seems to me that the bias is still there,  for the most part,  and I
RJ>still wonder where it's coming from.

See above.

The above, of course, is just my own opinion but it could also be aliens 
from outer space who wish to take over the planet by eliminating our 
will and ability to fight them, that might explain William Jefferson 
Clinton? 

OK, I'll go away now....

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