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To: paul_philp who wrote (92442)	4/11/2003 11:17:56 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<The world as seen through television is a rapidly changing world of dramatic images....> Yes. <....representing the average position of a mass audience.> No. When TV news was just 3 networks, they targeted a mass audience. Today, with 300 channels available, there is segmentation. I know people who only get their news by listening to NPR. Other people (on this thread) have expressed the view that only conservative Israeli newspapers are reliable fact sources. A mass audience is only achieved, when there is a near-consensus of opinion, or when the range of opinion is rather narrow. <End of conspiracy> Agreed. It's just a positive feedback loop, where the audience seeks entertaining news that confirms their biases, and the media seeks market share. No conspiracy. <Americans today consume more information from more places with more diverse opinions than any collection of human beings ever.> Americans have available more, and more diverse sources, of news, than ever before. But they mostly still watch Fox and CNN. Which, to most foreigners, are near-identical cheerleaders for the war.