re: No respect for LSU (College Football Final)

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The media's sole job is to shape opinion.

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Very much incorrect. The media’s job is SUPPOSED to be (obvious emphasis on the supposed) to report news/facts, and allow the audience to shape its own opinion. There is also a part of media that is designed to give opinions and shape others views or create discussion, these are commentators or columnists in print articles; but that is not their “sole job.”

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If you are an attorney, I am shocked that you do not understand this. Media is nothing more than government sponsored propaganda, even when it comes to sports.

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I think based on the quote above about “sole job” and the comment I just quoted, that it is you who fails to understand the difference in what I said media is supposed to be and what it is. Media today is very much driven by the need to sell advertising, which means drawing the largest audience to its platform. How do you do this? In two ways. One is to reflect the opinions and comments of the loudest voices in society. They may not be the majority, but they are the attention grabbers and the ones media latch on to to continue feeding that voice. The other way is to be the obvious voice of dissension and engage people through fierce opposition so they want to argue back with you.

If media was nothing more than government run communist megaphone, then wouldn’t today’s media on the whole be more reflective of what this current government stands for? Instead you have platforms that feed the loudest voices of both ends of the spectrum, often drowning out what is in the middle.