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From: Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 15:23:59 -0700
That was a really fun video. I watched it yesterday.

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:37 AM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Unfortunately the Dirty Digger (owner of Faux News) now seems to be a
> sponsor for our new Government.  I’m not talking about money changing
> hands, but ministers seem to favour policies that Murdoch favours.
>
> But also video sites are desperate to generate traffic to their pages on
> the Internet, providing teasers to sensational content from any pages where
> they can post.  I no longer click on videos unless the content is
> definitely of interest – such as the Swiss chap flying his jetpack over
> Dubai:
>
>
> http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/5/11/8587941/jetpacks-yves-rossy-dubai-balloon-boy
>
> Chris
>
>
> > On 13 May 2015, at 08:55, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I think the video news media currently are doing the equivalent of
> > shouting, "Fire!" in a crowded theater. It's all scare tactics and no
> > context. I've pretty much given up on counting the number of times many
> TV
> > news reports are wrong or worse--deliberately misleading--in any given
> > week. And Faux (Fox) News is just cheap fiction for the easily
> mislead--the
> > modern equivalent of the penny dreadfuls.
>
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