What social problems could be fixed or at least be spotlighted

[JANdad]

if the MSM, Internet and radio gave 1/2 as much time as has been given to an entertainer?

I mean really...if the media were to do it's job and report and bring to light (Edward R. Murrow anyone?) the social and political problems of this world...

[imdjh]

1. Single payer, old people dying of stupid shit because they are afraid to call 911

because they can't afford the $500 ambulance charge.

[truedelphi]

2. In the first few weeks of January 1994

A revolution began in the hills of Mexico.

Since nothing else was happening, all the major networks sent their news teams down there.

The reporters, young and filled to the brim with the enthusiasm of being great journalists, talked to the rebels, and visited their families inside sorry little mud floored huts on the hillsides.

Within the week, Citibank put out the word, and the reporting on Chiapas stopped. The replacement story? Nancy Kerrigan's knee was bonked by Tonya Harding's posse, annd we Americans went from watching a revolution in the making, complete with discourse on the damn REASONS why a people revolt, to the Tonya/Nancy 24/7 Show.

[JANdad]

3. i did not know that...

Of course at the time, I was working as a retail manager (read: 70hrs per week) and was not much of a news junkie then...

[truedelphi]

8. I knew it only because

I was doing elder care, and my client was a total news junkie.

BTW, the reporting that was done was very reminiscent of Ed Murrow. In fact, one network was promising a full one hour special on Chiapas! Until Citibank put out the word.

It took me years to find out WHO stomped on the story. In the end, Rolling Stone (Who'd have thunk?) came out with the info that Citibank had too much too lose if the chains around the poor farmers in that region were ever gnawed off.

And of course, nothing gnaws off the chains faster than letting the American pulbic find out about an issue, with lots of film and interviews.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I've been saying for a VERY long time that the media is the single biggest issue we face

Bigger than absolutely anything.

Fix the media and the truth comes out. Get the truth out and all good things follow.

[sandnsea]

5. DUers post all of that

on an almost daily basis - and it drops like a rock every time. Half the reason the outrage around here strikes me as completely phony. None of these people are ever in those humanitarian threads, except the write a check threads.

[timeforpeace]

6. Screw the media. The intertubes allow individuals to decide the relevant issues. Yet even a site

like DU is dominated, almost completely, by TV. Hard to believe.

[JANdad]

7. Kick for the morning crew...

please discuss

[AngryOldDem]

9. Homelessness and the mentally ill

What we have done to the mentally ill in this nation is both a sin and a crime.