Media exaggeration will kill us all...

...one commercial at a time.

Have you ever noticed that what we know and love is greatly decided by the media?

For example NBC/Universal, Sony BMG, and Warner Brothers control what you listen to for the most part. If one of these companies decide to take some guy off the streets and to a studio on Monday, he'll be sure to hit Billboard by Thursday. Kinda sad, but we're not complaining.

Hey, wait a minute.... Obama's on a trip to a 3rd world country! MSNBC's even showing the speech live! ...Wait a minute, I recall O'Reilly talking about McCain's trip to the same country last week... heh. This is a prime example of media bias. MSNBC's far left while Fox News hangs around as the only large right-wing news source. I'd say that CNN is pretty neutral, though I see a bit more left than right when Glen Beck isn't on. Seriously, if we don't watch the speeches in their entirety, we'll become victim of paraphrased, filtered information. A humerous example of this can be found here.

Oh, here's a prime example of media exaggeration. The iPhone. Apple announces it, the crowd goes wild, they sell millions. Then Apple announces the iPhone 3G. The crowd goes wild. 1 million gets sold in about 2 days [by the way, the sudden boost in sales was because Apple started selling the iPhone 3G in over 20 other countries]. But wait a minute... the Nokia N800 was launched about half a year earlier, and that didn't get on the news. Then Nokia brought out the N810, and still no media coverage. And whatever happened to all of the touch screen phones that HTC has manufactured over the last year or so? Sure, they sell like hotcakes, but it's not like any non-geek recognizes them. Pft, I'd be suprised if you, the reader, knew why the Samsung Omnia and HTC Touch Diamond [as well as the just-released Touch Pro and upcomming Touch HD] beats the iPhone in just about every aspect.

My closing statement is this: Read up before you speak up. Check the specs, the Wiki articles, and the C-SPAN press releases.