When you sign up for a newspaper, you only want the paper copy to be delivered at home, but your mobile phone gets spammed. I regularly get spam SMSes from a newspaper’s Infoline regarding a variety of subjects, and there is no option available to opt out of these spam SMSes.
Archive for the ‘editor’ Category
Newspaper SMS spam
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Editors and news
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Most of the general public believes that the mainstream media like newspapers and TV are unbiased, but actually the editors of these publications are selected on the basis of their ability to promote the agenda of the media owners.
Making a profit is also an important motivation.
Stereotypes
Monday, August 10th, 2009One of the problems of lack of exposure and experience is that you tend to stereotype, believe in the fake images projected by the media. Most offline media companies have a few large advertisers and their editors consciously publish stories which reiterate this image.