Non-fiction Entertainment Influencing Your View Of the World?

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Razgovory

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December 31, 2015, 12:56:45 PM
I just saw the Making a Murder thing on NetFlix.  The way cops elicited a confession out of a retarded teenager was a bit of an eye opener.  Also the way the kid's lawyer colluded with the prosecutor bothered me.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

mongers

#31
December 31, 2015, 01:10:50 PM
Hilarious, maybe I shouldn't have started a thread whilst working on a couple of other things, seams I inadvertently typed non-fiction when I meant fiction. :blush:   :rolleyes:


So my new year's resolution is to be more 'careful' with my threads.  :Embarrass:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Malthus

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December 31, 2015, 01:21:51 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on December 31, 2015, 12:56:45 PM
I just saw the Making a Murder thing on NetFlix.  The way cops elicited a confession out of a retarded teenager was a bit of an eye opener.  Also the way the kid's lawyer colluded with the prosecutor bothered me.

I watched episodes of Forensic Files, and resolved to be more careful in the future.

;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

11B4V

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December 31, 2015, 08:06:35 PM
Quote from: Jacob on December 30, 2015, 10:32:15 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on December 30, 2015, 10:15:51 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 30, 2015, 02:32:04 PM
How far has non-fiction entertainment, be that novel, film or other media, influenced your view of the world or how you interact with it and other people?

What

Has your point of view been altered by watching or listening to the likes of Glen Beck, Ann Coulter, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and others who deal in real-world events and politics but declare that they are entertainers rather than journalists?

Sure
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#34
December 31, 2015, 10:02:06 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 31, 2015, 01:10:50 PM
Hilarious, maybe I shouldn't have started a thread whilst working on a couple of other things, seams I inadvertently typed non-fiction when I meant fiction. :blush:   :rolleyes:


So my new year's resolution is to be more 'careful' with my threads.  :Embarrass:

These other things came in bottles, right?

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Norgy

#35
January 01, 2016, 05:41:00 AM
Quote from: Malthus on December 31, 2015, 01:21:51 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on December 31, 2015, 12:56:45 PM
I just saw the Making a Murder thing on NetFlix.  The way cops elicited a confession out of a retarded teenager was a bit of an eye opener.  Also the way the kid's lawyer colluded with the prosecutor bothered me.

I watched episodes of Forensic Files, and resolved to be more careful in the future.

;)

:D

Razgovory

#36
January 03, 2016, 02:18:43 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 31, 2015, 01:10:50 PM
Hilarious, maybe I shouldn't have started a thread whilst working on a couple of other things, seams I inadvertently typed non-fiction when I meant fiction. :blush:   :rolleyes:


So my new year's resolution is to be more 'careful' with my threads.  :Embarrass:

Maybe you should start a new one.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

mongers

#37
January 03, 2016, 03:08:37 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 03, 2016, 02:18:43 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 31, 2015, 01:10:50 PM
Hilarious, maybe I shouldn't have started a thread whilst working on a couple of other things, seams I inadvertently typed non-fiction when I meant fiction. :blush:   :rolleyes:


So my new year's resolution is to be more 'careful' with my threads.  :Embarrass:

Maybe you should start a new one.

Raz, you do it; don't know if it's a good question, but it's a lot better than the one I accidentally posed in this thread.  :blush:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

garbon

#38
January 03, 2016, 09:03:54 PM
Quote from: Jacob on December 30, 2015, 10:32:15 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on December 30, 2015, 10:15:51 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 30, 2015, 02:32:04 PM
How far has non-fiction entertainment, be that novel, film or other media, influenced your view of the world or how you interact with it and other people?

What

Has your point of view been altered by watching or listening to the likes of Glen Beck, Ann Coulter, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and others who deal in real-world events and politics but declare that they are entertainers rather than journalists?

Has Maddow declared herself an entertainer rather than a journalist? :unsure:
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