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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica
I don't think that is an excuse any more.
Although most magazines seem to be written for 8 YOs with a film/rock star obsession.
With the web you can choose what you want to read and the newsletters and alerts you want to get.
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Most newspapers and magazines that are written by "news" companies write them so that someone with only an 8th grade education can read them. Therby targeting the lowest common denominator.
What I think I meant was that the media finds stories that will cause enough of an uproar to get them better ratings. They find hot button issues and explain them in such a one sided, simplistic, way without too much information. I belive it is called a "soundbyte".
Everyone uses cellphones and most people know practically nothing about radiation except that it can kill you or cause cancer. They do not, however, know how or why or in what dose. Which makes it a good topic to scare the masses enough to want to know more, but not much more.
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