I have noticed as with anything in todays day and age that the media is a money game as with anything else out there. The media thinks that it needs to have the biggest, brightes, most outrages stories out there in order for them to get people to watch. If they don't, then people will go somewhere else to get their fix. The media will do anything to achieve this. Even if this means that they put a story on the air without researching all the facts. People in general want to see someone elses misery because they do not want to accept the fact that their life is not all they want it to be. They are not willing to take responsibility for how their life is so they will go anywhere to see how other people are suffering. Here are two examples of how powerfull the media is. We recieve google alerts about MONA VIE. So many stories of reporters doing stories on the juice and most of them focus on the cost of it, 40-45 dollars a bottle. Not one of them touch on the other prices. So all the general population see is that it is so expensive. The other example happened several years ago. I was part of one of the most elite units in the Canadian military. The Airbone Regiment. The media got ahold of some pictures of how a few soldiers tortured a man. All they focused on was the pictures and the soldiers involved. A few bad apples. They never, ever did stories on the rest of the 500 plus members of the regiment and the good they did. It became so bad that we were not able to wear our uniform in public at one point because the people only saw what the media allowed them to see so the general population only thaught that we were all TORTURURES. My own Mom at one point said that she hopes that I don't do stuff like that. The pressure on the governent was so strong by the media and the general population that the Regiment was Disbanned. One of the saddest things that I ever saw was the day the regiment was disbannded. There were Veterans, Grown men on parade crying. It was all due to MEDIA atttention. That is the power of the Media. J.J. Robbins