 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA
kudos:1 | reply to TuxRaiderPen
Re: It's Better/Worse Than That This is not something that is too enlightening. I'm a steadfast skeptic and I'm one to always follow the money/power trail in search of an ulterior motive.
There was a bunch of noise on the internet a few years back with regards to RFID and Myth Busters.
»www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/09/03···banned/1
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Can we trust any news today from the mass media? Is "60 Minutes" under similar constraints with regards to journalistic integrity? I'm guessing they won't be running a piece about this any time soon. 
You were under the impression that "news" presented in any form was anything more than about $$$$, naive.
News at least in the US is not about presenting "just the facts" and letting readers/viewers decide.. its about presenting ownerships bias and views on subjects, or many cases NOT presenting items.
This is not new.. its been that way for decades... If you think the Washington Post and Woodward were doing it for the public good, naive. It sold papers, and it was a media outlet which is typically biased against the party in power at the time.
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Even "Myth Busters" was prohibited from airing anything about RFID chips because upper management was concerned about the credit card companies threatening to pull their advertising.
When was this? I watch pretty religiously and follow them and don't remember this controversey... and I guess since I use it mainly for background viewing never noticed which, if any, of the card companies were advertisers...
I am not sure what the ruckus would be as in the US at least very few RFID based systems exist especially in cards.. few cards have them, and then you have to either request them and pay for them.. I see terminals for the mastercard system, but I've never seen any one use it or have a card with the RFID to use it.. Contrast with EU/UK and a many other areas they have RFID cards, and smartcards with chips embedded. In the US right now the biggest use of RFID payment and tracking (these are used for 'traffic monitoring' as well by many of the toll agencies) is the various toll prepayment transponders.
Hell VZW is blocking/blocked NFC on a nexus device, but amazingly now is allowing it on a HTC droid device... why? Because it was neutred of some offending payment program, so VZW could get a cut.
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to jmn1207
There is impact from who owns a media outlet.
for example when ABC News reports anything about disney, they have to close the story mentioning that disney is their parent company.
But that is also an example, if disney was doing something that would be horrible PR if it got widely reported. would the execs prevent an ABC reporter from going digging? I am guessing they certainly would.
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jmn1207Premium
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Ashburn, VA
kudos:1 | reply to jseymour
Can we trust any news today from the mass media? Is "60 Minutes" under similar constraints with regards to journalistic integrity? I'm guessing they won't be running a piece about this any time soon.
Even "Myth Busters" was prohibited from airing anything about RFID chips because upper management was concerned about the credit card companies threatening to pull their advertising. |
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CBS has magically ensured not only that people are talking about Hopper far more than if it had just won a CNET prize, but that they'll also be talking about how idiotic and anti-consumer CBS is for injecting itself into CNET's editorial standards.
It may also clue people in to the value of dominant media's "entertainment presented as 'news'."
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