The news media has it out for ANYONE that succeeds other than them

Thanks Gena  just call me "RANTS R US"  (Perhaps I am a frustrated radio talk show host?) I agree that killer service and proving them wrong is key as most serious agents will attest to.  However... the media play a huge role in skewing or skewering the facts and cannot be trusted alone with the details.

WALMART is a good example....starting almost 2 years ago was an intentional "let's knock Walmart of the pedestal mantra from the media and with it's continuous drumbeat hinging on a number of issues primarily related to a Labor perspective...Walmart had it's first bad quarter 2 quarters ago.  I have my own issues with the company but when the media got hold of one it liked....watch out!

Yes they survive on drama but then.......so did chicken little.

In fact in our case here at TourFactory.com we set our viewers to make sure the images in panorama or immersive form will pixelate quicker than the norm.  This is a safety feature that makes it far more difficult to see specifics as in valuable objects , security, etc.

Thanks for the disclaimer Joe although:

1 - Helping my case with the media isn't exactly what I am interested in. They have already taken the "other side" of the argument without truly explaining that examples that fortify their ideology are few and far between.  But then chicken little saw all things in the same way. My point is to hold them accountable for BEING chicken littles.

2 - Explain how reinforcement of any image is detailed here in the rant.

And if it is the case that you love your agents and depend on them for a portion of your revenues why would anyone want to give you money that gives you more ability to hammer them ad hominem? Fairness is as fairness does.

Perhaps since print is falling of the earth at an alarming pace regarding real estate advertising dollars it might be the tenor that you in the media take that makes them run even faster.

OK Joe,

First, I was a commercial director and producer for 21 years and my entire life revolved around "propaganda" and the uses of it. So I have a serious insight into what type of stories the media put up and how they shade and obfuscate an issue to prove a point they agree with.  This is the typical way things are done at the media level and my point is that they should not have a free ride.

The story was not innocuous, in fact it was a scare piece that had no bearing on the truth. 

I never said you attacked me I said the media does often in ways that are under the sheets if you will and they get away with it all the time.  YES all the time.  I never take off on any "slender thread" since I as stated before have been on the propaganda side for my entire adult life.

Are there crooks in this business. Well duh. But typically the media paints the canvas with a huge broad brush taking in whoever they want without regard to balance (race issues and climate issues as well).  If in fact this was an innocuous or naive story then perhaps the questions asked by the interviewer and were answered forthrightly by the few on the agent side answered would have been used in the 2.5 minute piece.  However the ideology of the piece was not to balance a perspective of whether VT's were potentially dangerous but was to make their position absolute.  This is the primary reason I suggest they are more than not -- un-educated people (meaning under educated) in the media shouting in an echo chamber or attempting to make an echo chamber stick for long enough to create their next "sky is falling" attack.

If chicken little pieces on TV and in the news are acceptable then we are in big trouble as a society.  Paris Hilton has done the same thing as many of the "producers and writers" of this garbage.....she made an image out of yelling... "look at me and all my badness!!"