Re: I SEE A CONNECTION BETWEEN RELIGION AND PEDOPHILIA--don't know about you, but you'd have to be blind not to notice...

"marques de sade" <jesucristo2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:17:54 -0700, "Tom"
> <dantPAYATTENTIONomel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
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>>"marques de sade" <jesucristo2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:482a09a0.122577032@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Every time we see on the news all these pedophiles, and they're
>>> all connected to religion in some way.
>>
>>Well, for one thing, the cases you see on the news are only the most
>>sanitary and controversial of the incidents.  Fit to print, as it were.
>>Further, they are the most sensational from a social interest point of 
>>view,
>>such as when a supposedly trustworthy or glamorous figure is exposed. 
>>This
>>would include religious, educational, or political figures, as well as
the
>>occasional pop star.
>>
>>The vast majority of pedophile activity is tawdry, revolting, and ugly, 
>>not
>>at all like the cases you see on TV, which are merely shocking and
>>salacious.  People don't want to know about it in detail on the nightly
>>news.  Most would prefer not to know about it at all.  So, if you are
>>relying on the public news broadcasts, you are getting a very skewed 
>>picture
>>of the situation.
>
> well, if there is activity that you know about that is so common
> and the media is totally ignoring it, then there is something
> wrong there... they're supposed to re****t the facts, and be
> totally objective about it...

Heh.  Who told you that?

There are lots and lots of facts that media doesn't tell you about simply 
because there aren't enough hours in the day to do it.  There are lots and

lots of facts that most people don't want to know simply because those
facts 
don't make a bit of difference in their daily lives.   Thus, one cannot 
expect any particular news medium to tell you everything about everything.

So what criteria will be used to decide which facts will be communicated
at 
any given time and which facts will be ignored?  No matter what decision
is 
made, somebody is going to be disappointed.

The ugliest sides of life repel the attention of most folks.  No news
media 
organization could possibly survive by relentlessly showing people things 
they don't want to see or telling them about things they don't want to
know. 
There's no market for it.

On the other hand, there is information to be had on all sorts of topics 
that the commercial and government-run news media ignore but you're going
to 
have to go find it yourself.  It's not going to be spoon-fed to you.

> if they're skewing the picture on purpose, then that's ****ed up.
> if it's unintentional, it's still ****ed up but i'm not as
> upset... but something should be done to fix it...

You could try enlightening the whole of humanity.  That might do the
trick. 
Remember, though:  Think globally, act locally.