[TheForge] Re: [EKMetalsmiths] Knife insanity

[Ries Niemi]

> 	Completely agree.  The only way to stop this shit is to hurt
> 	them where it hurts most: the wallet.  Make a big enough
> 	stink and they will begin to listen as the advertisers start
> 	making the real noises.
>

Andy- the only problem is, the reason they do this sensational 
reporting is they make MORE money doing it than not. All tv news these 
days is one end of the world story after another. And it gets ratings, 
and sells ads. Every storm is the killer storm, every product recall is 
going to endanger YOU!

It is popular for the same reason people buy the national enquirer, or 
watch wrestling or american chopper-
People love this sensationalistic crap. Some of them believe it. Lots 
of them dont. But most americans like a good scare now and again, and 
love to believe the worst.

Now personally, when I think about companies endangering their 
neighbors, my thoughts run more to the poor chumps who live down the 
street from where Boeing makes cruise missiles, or next to the 
refinery. Or next to a military base, which for years were exempt from 
all environmental regs, and just dumped everything on the ground.

There is serious journalism occasionally in America, but not much of 
it, and not on network TV. One of the last bastions of real journalism 
and investigative reporting is the Wall Street Journal.

ries