Fecal Bacteria Unsafe Levels On 33% of Beaches

[Cadence]

The problem with human fecal matter may be the usage of legal drugs passing through the system or the carrying of human transmittable diseases.

[Cpt Pat]

Originally Posted by Kenomac

I haven’t watched a news program in over five years; my biggest worry today was deciding if I should take a nap or not. I wasn’t tired.... so I decided against it.

Off topic, but an interesting side topic. I worked in the media. ABC News for 9 years: 1980 -1989. At the beginning of my career, there were only three network news sources: ABC, NBC, and CBS. They all strived to deliver the news without overt political bias. Sometimes, they told you things you didn't want to hear, but you'd hear the same things on all three networks, so there was little impact on ratings.

The sole purpose of broadcast news is to subject the largest audience possible to the commercials. Not to inform, not to notify. Ratings are everything. What you are getting is not THE news - it's only SOME news. The news the Producer (a more severe bunch of cynical misanthropists cannot be found!) thinks you want to hear.

If you want to estimate the demographics of the news outlet, just look at the commercial topics. Hamburgers: young audience. Laxatives and pharmaceuticals: old audience. Idiot audience: get-rich-quick schemes.

I remember the day the News Director called us into a meeting and said: "Because of this upstart CNN, we are no longer in the broadcasting business. We are now in the narrowcasting business. We need to identify and carve out a captive audience - by giving them what they want. How do we do that? There are two topics that captivate an audience better than all others: sex and outrage. We can't use sex, so we will use outrage."

Then, the bottom fell out of the budget for actual news gathering. Manufacturing outrage is cheap. Especially when you don't confirm the facts. I changed careers shortly after that. The news today is a circus incarnate. Your only choice is which circus ring you want to focus on.

Do you want liberal outrage? Watch MSNBC. Conservative outrage? Watch Fox News. Outrage that's less overt and more subtle? Watch CNN.

They are all selling the same product: outrage. If you don't want to be outraged - don't watch.

[letsgetsailing3]

Originally Posted by Cpt Pat

Off topic, but an interesting side topic. I worked in the media. ABC News for 9 years: 1980 -1989. At the beginning of my career, there were only three network news sources: ABC, NBC, and CBS. They all strived to deliver the news without overt political bias. Sometimes, they told you things you didn't want to hear, but you'd hear the same things on all three networks, so there was little impact on ratings.

The sole purpose of broadcast news is to subject the largest audience possible to the commercials. Not to inform, not to notify. Ratings are everything. What you are getting is not THE news - it's only SOME news. The news the Producer (a more severe bunch of cynical misanthropists cannot be found!) thinks you want to hear.

If you want to estimate the demographics of the news outlet, just look at the commercial topics. Hamburgers: young audience. Laxatives and pharmaceuticals: old audience. Idiot audience: get-rich-quick schemes.

I remember the day the News Director called us into a meeting and said: "Because of this upstart CNN, we are no longer in the broadcasting business. We are now in the narrowcasting business. We need to identify and carve out a captive audience - by giving them what they want. How do we do that? There are two topics that captivate an audience better than all others: sex and outrage. We can't use sex, so we will use outrage."

Then, the bottom fell out of the budget for actual news gathering. Manufacturing outrage is cheap. Especially when you don't confirm the facts. I changed careers shortly after that. The news today is a circus incarnate. Your only choice is which circus ring you want to focus on.

Do you want liberal outrage? Watch MSNBC. Conservative outrage? Watch Fox News. Outrage that's less overt and more subtle? Watch CNN.

They are all selling the same product: outrage. If you don't want to be outraged - don't watch.

This is true.

And most of what you see on cable news is just taken from the newspaper headlines, just adapted and spun to that channels' preferred demographic.

Roger Ailes was president of CNBC and MSNBC before becoming the president of Fox News. Same method of promoting news stories. Different audience.

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by Kenomac

European... your a peein’. Rim shot please...

Rim shot..!!???
I'm a guy not a woman.. only drop the front at the stays..
Full drops only for head shots...

[Cpt Pat]

Originally Posted by letsgetsailing3

This is true.

And most of what you see on cable news is just taken from the newspaper headlines, just adapted and spun to that channels' preferred demographic.

Roger Ailes was president of CNBC and MSNBC before becoming the president of Fox News. Same method of promoting news stories. Different audience.

Correct. In TV news, we called that: "Rip and read." It's next to the cheapest news source of all. The cheapest source is news about news: stories about how the media is reporting the news. You'll get a lot of that on "slow news" days.

American journalism is nearly dead. Personally, I get my news from the BBC, and I just put up with the rugby "sport" stories and the inordinate focus on Britain's former colonies. And the Associated Press news feed - that still employs a few actual (starving) journalists - where you can see stories directly from the reporters -- before it gets warped and mangled by the news outlets. Still, they too have a slant. Journalists these days are the people who flunked math and science - where they could have made a real living.

[TigerPaws]

As a "paid" defense consultant to one of the big 4 TV networks I can say with all candor they all LIE! I was coached on what the slant was to be during my segment, after a year I gave up, sure the money was excellent but I was being paid to confirm their lies.

Once while on-air live I told the truth and there was H to pay, so I quit.

SeaQuest OE II

[StuM]

Originally Posted by Kenomac

Feed the mullet and stop watching the news.

Peace Brother.

Jut don't eat the blind mullet

[Cpt Pat]

Originally Posted by Kenomac

Phil... the Tiger’s upset because your a peein’ off the side of your boat.

Pee away! It won't hurt anybody. Unless there's something really wrong with you, urine is sterile.

Doctors used to taste patient's urine to detect diabetes (what was then called: "sugar disease"). I was an EMT for my first two years out of high school. During our internship, the doctors explained that practice, and then handed us cups of a yellow liquid to taste. EEWWW!!! Exclaimed some of us. One EMT intern nearly passed out.

It was a hazing. The liquid was apple juice.

[friz]

Originally Posted by Montanan

FYI.

Maine beaches appear to be comparatively clean versus Texass beaches.

Is it not common knowledge that the majority of Maine use outhouses?