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It often seems that journalist would rather cause problems, than fix them
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by Mike 12 years, 1 month ago
It often seems that journalist would rather cause problems, than fix them.
Reasons to agree
- It is not cynical to note that journalist will have more stories to write about if there is more conflict is in the world (+3). It is the same argument to note that some companies do better, the more war there is.
- If the loss of life was what motivated journalist and they were true to statistics, we would have 70 times as many stories about alcohol caused deaths, than stories about US solder in Iraq. In the year 2000 85,000 died because of alcohol. In the war in Iraq 2,363 people have died. You say you can't compare the two. I agree. The people in Iraq died for something. They died defending the modern world from Islamo-fascist. The death caused by alcohol is a waste. Those lives were wasted for nothing.
- The media has crossed the line of investigating Mitt Romney into persecuting him. +2
- Journalist tend to over simplify things. +1
- "A coalition of sentiments is not for the interest of printers. They, like the clergy, live by the zeal they can kindle and the schisms they can create. It is contest of opinion in politics as well as religion which makes us take great interest in them and bestow our money liberally on those who furnish aliment to our appetite... So the printers can never leave us in a state of perfect rest and union of opinion. They would be no longer useful and would have to go to the plough." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1801. ME 10:254
Reasons to disagree
Score:
- Reasons to agree: +5,
- reasons to agree with reasons to agree: 6:
- Score = 6/2 = 3
- reasons to agree contribute 1/2 a point
- Total: +5 +3 = 8
It often seems that journalist would rather cause problems, than fix them
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