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TV gives the viewer a portion, a small glimpse of what's going on, a little bit of evidence but not all the evidence and then hopes that the viewer will somehow get emotionally involved.
It's called propaganda.
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Recursion
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Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)Almost everyone here is following live feeds w/o commentary or editing.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I give you permission to stop watching if you feel this way. I recommend catching up on the comedy show ' workaholics', a rip roaring situation comedy about three weed smoking friends in Rancho who work in an office. I give it two thumbs up! No propaganda. Enjoy!
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)to watch Court TV, or even TV at all, to be affected by the bullshit.
Just looking around DU, it's plain that people think they KNOW what happened the night Trayvon Martin was killed.
It's much the same IRL.
I've been following the trial, too.
I don't have a goddamned CLUE as to what really happened.
What's scary to me is knowing that there are so many people...potential jurors in RL cases...willing to pass judgement based on incomplete evidence. Or, worse, to twist incomplete evidence to match their preconceived notions of guilt or innocence.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)Lots of people watch these shows and that every case has a mystery witness or that they can see evidence that is not there. Mayby if they just showed more trials without the sensationalism it would help.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)A kid is dead.
Zimmerman killed him. 2 facts.
That pisses people off. A life wasted. People are rightly outraged.
Now how much time should he serve?
We talk about it but were not on the jury.
So we speculate.
He needs to prove he was justified in following a kid and shooting him.
We know he did those two things.
What is his justification?
We know the kid ran.
Zimmerman said that on the phone with the cop.
Is what he did okay?
Is that normal behavior?
I have kids. I don't want some strange man shooting my kid, because my kid looks suspicious and runs from a stranger who's following them. I teach my child to run from strange men if they are followed. If they are caught I tell them to fight like your life depends on it. Cause it might.
That young man did everything they taught us in stranger danger classes.
Evade. Hide. Run. If all else fails, scream and fight, scratch and bite. They say to try to put marks on your attacker to help identify your assailant.
That's what they teach our children. Police officers go to schools and do seminars in the auditorium. Or classrooms.
http://www.kidpower.org/library/article/safety-tips-kidnapping/
That's real life. Trayvon followed procedure. Martin did not.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...the courtroom TV industry has always been for entertainment. They're "morality plays" that are manipulated and exploited to generate ratings and revenues...with little real regard to the people involved. They're just the latest characters that go from trial to trial...the only thing that remains the same are the "pointificators" who gladly will tell you what is "going on" from a television studio hundreds or thousands of miles from the court room. They look for the "emotion" and milk it for all its worth (Nancy Grace take a bow) and do attract an audience.
I had an elderly friend who lived with "his trials"...watching Court TV all day and ready to pass judgement on any and all. As one who actually served on a jury in a federal trial, I know there's far more that goes on in a courtroom that the cameras can't nor are able to cover. Thus I have little interest in watching these trials and avoid the speculation that is part of the infotainment game (and it's more game than propaganda) that keeps eyeballs watching these trials...