05-03-2007, 12:13 PM
I see nowhere that anyone used the word "news". Why do you say that?
And in fact, what IS news? Not YOUR definition. This is rhetorical. News is facts? Well, there are facts in that story. New is timely? Well, it's timely. News does not harm? MUCH in the media harms one side or another, directly or indirectly, agenda or no agenda, with malice and without. Or, is news NOT about philandering?
I agree that media/news is out of hand. And I think one of the rights should be the right of anonymity in one's personal life. Not just privacy, but anonymity. But, that's another discussion. The only point I was making with my original post is that to say that man is overly handsome is a distortion of the facts. And that is opinion no matter how one slices it, I realize.
And in fact, what IS news? Not YOUR definition. This is rhetorical. News is facts? Well, there are facts in that story. New is timely? Well, it's timely. News does not harm? MUCH in the media harms one side or another, directly or indirectly, agenda or no agenda, with malice and without. Or, is news NOT about philandering?
I agree that media/news is out of hand. And I think one of the rights should be the right of anonymity in one's personal life. Not just privacy, but anonymity. But, that's another discussion. The only point I was making with my original post is that to say that man is overly handsome is a distortion of the facts. And that is opinion no matter how one slices it, I realize.