<falls to knees and looks up to the heavens> NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Michael Corrigan Programmer Endora Digital Solutions www.endoradigital.com 630/942-5211 x-134 ----- Original Message ----- From: Benjamin Falloon To: CF-Community Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:17 PM Subject: Re: Massive blasts rock Central Jerusalem :( The usage of the word is acturate: this is from dictionary.com To make or process (a raw material) into a finished product, especially by means of a large-scale industrial operation. I chose the word originally to imply a relationship between the manufacturing of news and the manufacturing of consumer commodities. Benjamin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:06 AM Subject: Re: Massive blasts rock Central Jerusalem :( > At 06:36 AM 12/7/01 Benjamin wrote: > >The stories are manufactured. This does not mean that they were invented out > >of thin air and not based of some kind of 'reality'. By manufactured I mean > >taken from a source, selective information and bias opinions constucted, > >edited down to have a punchy feel, music, special effect and voice over > >add... final product presented to the consumers as 'news'. This is the > >process of news manufacturing. > > This process is referred to as news packaging or > production. 'Manufacturing' usually implies 'making it up'. Perhaps that > was not the context in which you meant it, but that is the common usage of > the term, and obviously the cause of the confusion between you and Beth. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
