Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revolution Quiet?

Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by yuvadam on Monday February 04, 2013 @09:08AM (#5164090)

Those are not the only two options, you know.

There is a systematic method to deciding which stories are covered by MSM outlets and which aren't. It is not a coincidence that most outlets chose not to cover the Iceland story, regardless of it being a very small country.

Not everything is a "conspiracy", and failure to acknowledge that there are certain forces at play is a blatant misunderstanding of the role MSM plays in public brainwashing.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by cynicalkane on Monday February 04, 2013 @09:53AM (#5164324)

There isn't a single piece of substance in what you just said, just a bunch of vague proclamation and accusations about "public brainwashing" by the "MSM". Your post reads exactly like a hand-wavey paranoid conspiracy theorist except you're saying you're not a conspiracy theorist. Maybe you should be a bit more specific instead of this rambling nonsense about how you are enlightened and all the regular people are brainwashed.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by readme on Monday February 04, 2013 @10:08AM (#5164434)

Because it's possible, it must be true! Who cares if there's no hard evidence.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by illuminate on Monday February 04, 2013 @10:51AM (#5164691)

Besides, the simplest answer is that "the media" is selfish, desperate, and cheap. Original coverage, coverage that requires remote HQs, deep coverage is not a priority and those departments were probably axed ten years ago.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by alexqgb on Monday February 04, 2013 @12:48PM (#5165692)

"Selfish, desperate, and cheap."

Yes, exactly. As someone who knows the media world better than he'd like to, I cannot think of a more succinct or generally applicable characterization. You, sir, have nailed it.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by illuminate on Monday February 04, 2013 @01:07PM (#5165818)

Thanks for the opinion, I'm well outside of that but would love to find good sources with more signal than noise.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by alexqgb on Monday February 04, 2013 @03:47PM (#5167005)

I'd like to stress that this is by no means a fair characterization of all the people who work in media. There are a awful lot who push against this current every day. Some of them (on occasion) win. But it tends to be a fight, and the victories invariably seem like minor miracles.

When they're not winning (which is frequent), and thinking "what the fuck am I doing here?" (also frequent) chances are good that whoever or whatever they're getting snowed by can be fairly described just the way you did.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by elemenohpee on Monday February 04, 2013 @11:49AM (#5165150)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model#Case_examples

Just because you are ignorant of the evidence doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by readme on Monday February 04, 2013 @01:13PM (#5165873)

Same argument can be used to provide plausibility for the existence of the flying spaghetti monster, celestial teapot, and God.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by m0th87 on Monday February 04, 2013 @01:43PM (#5166088)

Wait, what? The criticism that the original comment had no meat was fair. But then, when you're linked to concrete examples of the hypothesized Propaganda Model at play, you invoke a generic argument about the FSM? Do you not see how you're making the same weightless arguments by invoking a straw man?

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by readme on Monday February 04, 2013 @03:52PM (#5167040)

No, I wasn't referring to the "propaganda model" I was referring to his second comment, which btw, does not describe the propaganda model at all.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by elemenohpee on Monday February 04, 2013 @01:45PM (#5166101)

I can only assume that you missed the part where I linked to the evidence you said didn't exist?

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by readme on Monday February 04, 2013 @03:53PM (#5167045)

I never said evidence didn't exist for ALL conspiracies. I said that there was no evidence in the particular article we're discussing.

I know about Iran-Contra, the gulf of tonkin, etc. How about the USS liberty?

Your link was very interesting.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by illuminate on Monday February 04, 2013 @10:49AM (#5164681)

Again, this is easier explained by the MSM not being interested in enlightening its readers, watchers, and listeners versus advertorials, PR puff pieces, and infotainment. Does this make it easier to spout and circulate propaganda points? Certainly. Is the shallow, provincial coverage sign of a greater conspiracy? Not in context of the rest of the coverage being terrible, no. I wouldn't say you're "wrong", but the rest of their coverage is as incomplete and fact free as how they approach things that may not reflect their ideological bent :)

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by brown9-2 on Monday February 04, 2013 @10:10AM (#5164450)

My point is that the forces at play likely have much more to do with what each outlet individually decides their audience is interested in and/or what would make a good story for them. Media institutions are much more interested in their own bottom line (and ratings/readership/etc) than anything else.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by fnordfnordfnord on Monday February 04, 2013 @11:34AM (#5165010)

Are you suggesting the possibility that Rupert Murdoch might secretly be a liberal, just with a keen sense for business? While profit may always a motive, I suspect it's a very rare media entity that is objectively focused on profit.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by elemenohpee on Monday February 04, 2013 @11:51AM (#5165164)

If they are not, market theory would predict that they would be replaced by entities that are.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by fnordfnordfnord on Monday February 04, 2013 @12:12PM (#5165361)

But we're surrounded by evidence that efficient market theory is not how the world works.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by elemenohpee on Monday February 04, 2013 @12:44PM (#5165664)

But that doesn't stop the ideologues in power from running companies as if it is.

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