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Originally posted by dodgec24
Originally posted by underduck
reply to post by Maxmars
Exactly. If it is true ... fine. Present it that way. Now that I see this though I have to seriously question whether or not Syria is the way I see it. Why would they go through the trouble (and so called "risk") of putting something like this together?
Remember Dan Rather being taken down on that Yellowcake issue? I really feel that real journalism may have gone out the door with him. This is how people end up in Idaho cursing the government and slowly losing their minds.
Sorry Idaho but you know its true
Syria is definitely not the way the media portrays it at all. One of my colleagues from work is originally from Syria and I had an interesting conversation with him the other day. He told me his brother still resides in one of the major cities (I forget which one) but the story he told me was that he keeps in constant contact over the phone with his brother. While on the phone with his brother he asked him if he was "OK" and his brother questioned him to what he was inquiring about. His brother said to him "yes I'm fine, I'm eating lunch in the center of the city with a friend". My colleague then inquired about the bombings and shootings by the government in Syria, his brother claimed that there was no such uprising or attempt by the government to attack the citizens.
Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by underduck
The idiotbox has a strong hypnotic power over people. I fear that until everyone does what I did, brings their TV's outback and puts them out of their misery, the world will continue the downward spiral. I wish I had a videocamera to record it when I did it. I would put it up here as an example lol. Some people can't comprehend words anymore, just short video clips
Originally posted by underduck
reply to post by lacrimaererum
I with you. This is all getting very tiring but I suppose that is what they want though. Once you begin to strive against these people you being to see how strong it really is. Reality as you put it is suddenly put into question and that is a very tough thing to get your head around.
Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by XPLodER
I hope that is true, because most people I have met in real life in the past 5 years, seem to take TV news as gospel. They refuse to even pull themselves away from their precious TV shows for 10 minutes to look at some alternate sources I give them. I meet a lot of people, and maybe 50 people in the last 5 years seems to have any semblance of a clue of things going on outside their homes and jobs. It is really frustrating sometimes.