Great new website!

I have discovered what so many people already knew. www.junkscience.com
Although I have yet to explore the many facets of this site, I know that my search for logically thinking people has not been in vain. I have finally found a website where good science can be published without a lot of hype. The basic text of the website lends itself to the importance of the articles published on its pages. It doesn't draw a lot of attention to itself with flashing banners and out of control graphics. It is simply...science.

I have many times ranted about the ridiculous display put on by the media. I can't seem to make it any more clear than put it in simple economic terms. In the US, all major networks and news agencies are commerciallized, therefore they must sell something, make a profit and reinvest just like any company. So what does media sell? Well, back in the day, news was sold at the cost of obtaining, writing and publishing the news. But companies found that they could advertise their goods and services within the news media. Which may I ask is more profitable/easier for a company, to gather a bunch of dimes from a million people or a million dimes from one company. The answer is obvious when your read the Sunday ads...I mean paper. It has become difficult to find where news ends and media begins. (Actuall on that front, we found an ad that was written like news, with articles picture etc....very good ad from the point of view of the company) But what makes a company want to place an ad with one news agency over another? It must be that the news agency reaches more people or a target market or something. All news agencies have the same news to work from, so in order to sell more/reach more people, it must create something more interesting than the other news agency and thus, hysteria. Hysteria sells, when you as a consumer don't know what is going, you turn on the news, they produce hysteria, they sell more. This is no longer news but entertainment. I am fine with entertainment, but the media should never touch science, they shouldn't interview scientists (because their expert is usually no more informed than the next Joe) they should not report scientific findings. Just let the scientific journal publish science. Please, media agencies, stick to entertainment!