must read----we are doing better than our older bros

[_sideways_]

http://www.nbcnews.com/#/news/us-news/virginia-teen-says-dress-got-her-kicked-out-prom-n105516

basically some 17 yr old got kicked out of her prom for wearing a dress that was within school regulations.

some dads chaperoning said that she was dancing and making boys have impure thoughts.... screw you dad...at 17 all kids have is impure thoughts. And how can you tell what another brain is thinking?
I would love it if my son thought another girl in her grade was sexy...at 17!!!

anyways, she got kicked out....but heres where my grief is....

These newspaper, internet news stations think this is news worthy.
They are making this girl think that because she is an average girl, no real note worthy mention of her superb grades, great skills on the basketball court, or anything other than she wore a pretty glitter dress and she cried about it...it makes news.

Then our younger bros buy into it....these young chicks already buy into it.

Our seniors, theyre parents are allowing it to happen.

It sucks she got kicked out...but if I were her dad I would not allow it to be "news".

The news head guy allows it to be news....whoever prints this online allows it to be news.

Im just saying...we are doing way better than the rest of our bros out there who get a kick out of living life in the way that they do.

why is this news?

To be honest, I clicked because i thought i would be shocked at how daring her dress might be.

Ho hum nonsense....

 

[narcissist]

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have" - Richard Salant, Former President for CBC news.

So you ask, why is this news?

Because it fits the criterion for the owners of these large media conglomerates and their self interest.

This is two fold.

1) News like this distracts people from the REAL problems of the world, such as the corruption inherent in capitalism vis-a-vis exploitation of the masses, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, the massive poverty in the world, the concentration of wealth and power, manipulative consumerism, rampant hunger and disease that could be fixed but isnt, how wars are created to sell weapons, etc, etc, etc.

This is because the people that own these media conglomerates like their power and money and wont propagate anything to threat their position. Common sense.


2) They need an audience to sell to advertising firms, in order to suffice for the profit driven interests occupied by the owners of these media conglomerates.

Thus they need stories. Without stories they wouldn't have an audience to sell. Without an audience to sell they wouldnt make money. Therefore they need a steady stream of bullsh1t to propagate because they are highly efficient money making machines.

They use stories like this so that they generate a huge audience and sell this as a commodity. Our attention as a commodity. To large advertising firms that want to sell their products.



If you want to understand more of this in depth read manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman - a very well renown manifesto on how the mass media is owned by a concentrated few who are out for money and power and feed people what they want for their own interests. Furthermore, how the stories that get told to us go through five filters, and the main important problems of the planet are filtered out and never get told to the masses because it doesn't serve their interests. Very current and relevant.

I mean its pretty widespread now that media conglomerates are full of sh1t and spew mindless bull crap to sell our attention to advertisers so they can create mindless consumerist's to further concentrate wealth. I mean duh. We live in capitalist society. You think media firms ARENT profit driven? ha. They are STRICTLY profit driven. They will tell you complete horse-fvckery to gain an extra dollar my friend.


Realistically NBC should not be having this stupid "news" or "story" on their website. Like they are seriously dabbling in the infinitesimal accounts of students at local school while our governments drop bombs on people in different countries, and how 4000 hungry children die per hour. Pftt. Its preposterous to even think about.

One of the MANY reason why planet earth is POO

 

[SeymourCake]

Russia just ended their relationship with the U.S in their space program and this is what got people in an uproar? We're entering another Cold War and this makes headlines?

 

[VikingKing]

http://www.nbcnews.com/#/news/us-news/virginia-teen-says-dress-got-her-kicked-out-prom-n105516

basically some 17 yr old got kicked out of her prom for wearing a dress that was within school regulations.

some dads chaperoning said that she was dancing and making boys have impure thoughts.... screw you dad...at 17 all kids have is impure thoughts. And how can you tell what another brain is thinking?
I would love it if my son thought another girl in her grade was sexy...at 17!!!

anyways, she got kicked out....but heres where my grief is....

These newspaper, internet news stations think this is news worthy.
They are making this girl think that because she is an average girl, no real note worthy mention of her superb grades, great skills on the basketball court, or anything other than she wore a pretty glitter dress and she cried about it...it makes news.

Then our younger bros buy into it....these young chicks already buy into it.

Our seniors, theyre parents are allowing it to happen.

It sucks she got kicked out...but if I were her dad I would not allow it to be "news".

The news head guy allows it to be news....whoever prints this online allows it to be news.

Im just saying...we are doing way better than the rest of our bros out there who get a kick out of living life in the way that they do.

why is this news?

To be honest, I clicked because i thought i would be shocked at how daring her dress might be.

Ho hum nonsense....

No offense, but your over using ellipses.

 

[VikingKing]

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have" - Richard Salant, Former President for CBC news.

So you ask, why is this news?

Because it fits the criterion for the owners of these large media conglomerates and their self interest.

This is two fold.

1) News like this distracts people from the REAL problems of the world, such as the corruption inherent in capitalism vis-a-vis exploitation of the masses, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, the massive poverty in the world, the concentration of wealth and power, manipulative consumerism, rampant hunger and disease that could be fixed but isnt, how wars are created to sell weapons, etc, etc, etc.

This is because the people that own these media conglomerates like their power and money and wont propagate anything to threat their position. Common sense.


2) They need an audience to sell to advertising firms, in order to suffice for the profit driven interests occupied by the owners of these media conglomerates.

Thus they need stories. Without stories they wouldn't have an audience to sell. Without an audience to sell they wouldnt make money. Therefore they need a steady stream of bullsh1t to propagate because they are highly efficient money making machines.

They use stories like this so that they generate a huge audience and sell this as a commodity. Our attention as a commodity. To large advertising firms that want to sell their products.



If you want to understand more of this in depth read manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman - a very well renown manifesto on how the mass media is owned by a concentrated few who are out for money and power and feed people what they want for their own interests. Furthermore, how the stories that get told to us go through five filters, and the main important problems of the planet are filtered out and never get told to the masses because it doesn't serve their interests. Very current and relevant.

I mean its pretty widespread now that media conglomerates are full of sh1t and spew mindless bull crap to sell our attention to advertisers so they can create mindless consumerist's to further concentrate wealth. I mean duh. We live in capitalist society. You think media firms ARENT profit driven? ha. They are STRICTLY profit driven. They will tell you complete horse-fvckery to gain an extra dollar my friend.


Realistically NBC should not be having this stupid "news" or "story" on their website. Like they are seriously dabbling in the infinitesimal accounts of students at local school while our governments drop bombs on people in different countries, and how 4000 hungry children die per hour. Pftt. Its preposterous to even think about.

One of the MANY reason why planet earth is POO

I haven't watched tv regularly for 3 years. When I do catch the news, or glance at a newspaper, either its just worthless nonsense, or fear mongering.

They want us to be ignorant and afraid.