CBS News, currently the lowest-rated broadcast network of the "big three", today ran its second story in the past month attempting to dig dirt on lotteries in America.
In its latest diatribe, CBS News alleges one of the oldest, most widely-spread lottery myths — that lotteries prey on the poor and destitute.
The problem is, the myth has been disproved time and again by long-term studies, using scientific means.
The CBS News story relies on interviews with a few people, and offers no data to back up its allegations.
In fact, CBS News seems to be making a living off of propagating myths about the lottery. Is it to exploit social divides in America, so they can resurrect abysmal ratings?
In addition to CBS's story in September about the lottery "short-changing schools" and accusing the state lotteries of "stunningly bad" contributions to education (see Is the lottery shortchanging schools?), their centerpiece news/entertainment show 60 Minutes also tried to slam the lottery in an Andy Rooney apoplectic rant (see Lotteries and lottery players are stupid).
Why is CBS News intent on spreading negative stories about the lottery?
As with most oddball tactics and stories produced by mainstream news outlets, their strange behavior can be linked directly to the size and direction of their ratings.
And with CBS News, things are not looking so rosy.
Katie Couric's evening news show has consistently been the lowest-rated on the main three, and viewership on the "CBS Evening News" has been in a downward spiral each week since her debut the day after Labor Day, 2006.
Last month, around the time when the first lottery hit piece was published, Couric's ratings were at their lowest point ever, despite the fact that it was her anniversary on the network, and she took a special trip to Iraq.
Ignoring the positive
The CBS News stories ignore any positive aspects to lotteries in their zeal to make them appear unsavory.
CBS News also ignored the tremendous number of poor Americans who receive money and programs directly from lottery revenues (see Lottery pays off for poor kids.)
And, they ignored studies like the one mentioned above showing that the link between social status and lottery playing is a myth.
Will CBS News continue publishing negative myths about the lottery? Will they continue stating opinions in their headlines, placing a question mark after the headline to make it appear legitimate?
If the CBS News ratings continue to plummet, the odds are good that we will see more of the same.
We now present the full text of the "news" story from CBS.
Lotteries: Preying On The Poor?
When we took a close look at state-run lotteries last month, we discovered that, when it comes to education funding, they are little more than a drop in the bucket and far from a bucketful.
We also learned that a disproportionate sum of the nation's $50+ billion in lottery comes from the pockets of the poor and minority groups. One place we saw this first hand was Texas, whose lottery rakes in $65 million every week.
Walk into any convenience store in Houston's lower-income 3rd Ward, and it's a good bet you'll see some of the Texas Lottery's best customers. Lottery sales in this legislative district top $50 million a year, the highest in the state, while the average family income is less than $15,000 a year, well below the poverty line. Folks here spend six times more of their income on the lottery than the wealthiest district.
"It's a shift of the cost of government onto people who can least afford it," says State Rep. Garnett Coleman, who has represented this neighborhood for 17 years. "Is a drug dealer responsible when they sell to the person?" Coleman asks. "If somebody says, 'yeah,' then the state is responsible for hooking the people on the gaming, on the lottery."
"You're selling hope," says Rob Kohler, who worked 12 years for the Texas Lottery and is now a private consultant in Austin. It was his analysis of lottery sales data that opened Coleman's eyes, revealing who the majority of heavy players are.
"It's coming from the folks, you know, high minority, low education, and low income," Kohler says. "That can least afford to play the game."
Texas lottery spokesman Bobby Heith does not dispute the data. "The data is what it is. We don't target groups of people," Heith says.
In Texas, Blacks and Hispanics outspend Whites nearly two to one on lottery tickets. According to a 2005 Texas Tech demographic survey commissioned by the lottery, blacks in Texas spend $109 a month on lottery tickets, Hispanics spend $102, and whites spend $55.
"We put out Hispanic ads mainly because for Spanish speaking people. I mean, it's good business," Heith says. "We don't want to prey on anybody. We're here to run a business for the state."
The Texas lottery spends $30 million dollars a year on advertising, pushing 70 kinds of instant tickets, and none more popular or pricey than the new $50 scratch off, the costliest in the nation.
"Lottery products in convenience stores here in Texas have gone from competing with candy bars - a dollar - to now the lottery product is the most expensive product in the entire store," Kohler says.
Nationwide, according to the last National Gambling Impact Commission study, in 1999, 5% of lottery players are responsible for 50% of sales. Families making $50-to-100,000 a year spend, on average $200 a year on lottery tickets, while families making less than $25-thousand dollars spend $600, or three times as much.
But lottery officials, like Tennessee Lottery President Rebecca Hargrove, who has run lotteries in four states, resist the idea that their games prey on the poor.
"If you spend a dollar and you make $20,000 a year, that's a bigger percentage of your disposable income, then if you spend a dollar and you make $50,000 a year," Hargrove says.
"So, if I'm making $20,000 a year," Armen asked her, "it's a wise choice for me to spend my disposable income on a lottery ticket rather than putting it in a bank in a savings account?"
"I didn't say it was a wise choice. I said it was an individual's choice," Hargrove replied.
As one regular player in Houston's third ward told us: "A lot of us can get rich with knowledge. Some of us have to get rich with luck."
Wake up and smell the coffee CBS..! Lotteries don't target anyone one individual, where are you getting your information from? Christ, you can't even clean up your own backyard ( your stattion), and now you want to create something that is totally untrue again. Why are'nt you covering the Tenn cover-up in the lottery??? You don't become number three from reporting the truth, you become number three from reporting the trash.
Maybe Katie can become Ms.Hargroves press secretary, would'nt that clear up this situation.!
whats wrong with giving people a dream? After all thats probly the best part about hitting a lottery they should investagate how these numbers are drawn if anything
That interview is defintely slanted. Rent in that area must not be anymore than 250.00 per month. The utilities, gas and groceries must be free. It takes more than $15,000.00 per year to live even if you are a single person. Most of the people I know make at least 21+ thousand a year and most of the folks I know who play the lottery make almost $50,000.00 per year. The lottery offers it's players a dream that many can't seem to find in their job's retirement plans...a guaranteed stream of income which will provide for them in their golden years. This dream is not affected by greedy corporate types such as the owners and managers of the now defunct Enron corporation. My investment in this dream is strictly under my own control. I can choose to play or not.
Quote: Originally posted by Littleoldlady on Oct 8, 2007
That interview is defintely slanted. Rent in that area must not be anymore than 250.00 per month. The utilities, gas and groceries must be free. It takes more than $15,000.00 per year to live even if you are a single person. Most of the people I know make at least 21+ thousand a year and most of the folks I know who play the lottery make almost $50,000.00 per year. The lottery offers it's players a dream that many can't seem to find in their job's retirement plans...a guaranteed stream of income which will provide for them in their golden years. This dream is not affected by greedy corporate types such as the owners and managers of the now defunct Enron corporation. My investment in this dream is strictly under my own control. I can choose to play or not.
The interview is factual ....Black individuals are manipulated and short changed into believing the lottery is fair and and honest ,......they are not and the corprorations which back and invest and sponser state lotterys are corupted;
I like to play the lottery everyday but do the sate change the balls ...YES...does that help them or the players ...it helps them :
instant t ickets ; are found only near the Governors residence for big winners the dollar tickets which sell in the millions are never real big 1.00 -100 max ...thats what the poor get back the millions go to the big ticket prizes and the profit from their ticket sales are pocketed :
enron wwas part of the 9/11 cover-up ;the world trade building housed the evidence for calf. eroen 7billion corruption scandal ...when world trad center went down so did the evidence to put the gulity people away ;see for yourself:
Quote: Originally posted by computerhead723 on Oct 8, 2007
The interview is factual ....Black individuals are manipulated and short changed into believing the lottery is fair and and honest ,......they are not and the corprorations which back and invest and sponser state lotterys are corupted;
I like to play the lottery everyday but do the sate change the balls ...YES...does that help them or the players ...it helps them :
instant t ickets ; are found only near the Governors residence for big winners the dollar tickets which sell in the millions are never real big 1.00 -100 max ...thats what the poor get back the millions go to the big ticket prizes and the profit from their ticket sales are pocketed :
enron wwas part of the 9/11 cover-up ;the world trade building housed the evidence for calf. eroen 7billion corruption scandal ...when world trad center went down so did the evidence to put the gulity people away ;see for yourself:
Excuse me, but that is a statement that you need to clarify, because I can't for the life of me make sense of it.
You said, "Black individuals are manipulated and short changed into believing the lottery is fair and and honest".
Please explain how state lotteries are able to pick out the black folks and make them believe the lottery is "fair and honest", but somehow all the white folks and other races are informed that it is a crooked enterprise.
I thought this was a poor vs. rich thing anyway, not a black/white thing.
The odd thing is that according to the lottery, it IS a fair and honest activity. So black people ... or ANYBODY for that matter ... would be correct in believing it is fair -- not "manupulated" as you say.
I just can't stand statements like yours that make everything a conspiracy against a certain race, or social status, or gender, or religion, or whatever. Has it occured to you that MOST people don't win jackpots?
Now, if you want to be upset at computerized drawings as a means to manipulate, then I'm with you on that. But that targets ALL players, not just the black players or the poor players, or whatever. It's unfair for EVERYBODY.
If you stop thinking everything is a conspiracy, you'll live a happier life.
If CBS wanted to allege anyone they should have went after state and federal government for adopting the lottery in the first place, and the reasons why states took over the numbers racket from the bookies.
oops i know why because it's a cash cow and the state and federal government couldn't figure out how to make extra money for this country so the opted for a sideline affair gambling. Siteing many different reasons benefiting the old, schools, teachers, fire departments, police dept, library's, stadium authority and every other general service in state and federal government to help offset taxes.
Yet even with the lottery in place in many states taxes still go up almost on a yearly basis. Why states don't divide their scratch games into several groups and or sell scratch games to generate money for their specific deficits behooves me.
People play the lottery because it's their for them to play and they advertise the dream of possible independent wealth. Who in their right mind would pass up a chance for that
Excuse me, but that is a statement that you need to clarify, because I can't for the life of me make sense of it.
You said, "Black individuals are manipulated and short changed into believing the lottery is fair and and honest".
Please explain how state lotteries are able to pick out the black folks and make them believe the lottery is "fair and honest", but somehow all the white folks and other races are informed that it is a crooked enterprise.
I thought this was a poor vs. rich thing anyway, not a black/white thing.
The odd thing is that according to the lottery, it IS a fair and honest activity. So black people ... or ANYBODY for that matter ... would be correct in believing it is fair -- not "manupulated" as you say.
I just can't stand statements like yours that make everything a conspiracy against a certain race, or social status, or gender, or religion, or whatever. Has it occured to you that MOST people don't win jackpots?
Now, if you want to be upset at computerized drawings as a means to manipulate, then I'm with you on that. But that targets ALL players, not just the black players or the poor players, or whatever. It's unfair for EVERYBODY.
If you stop thinking everything is a conspiracy, you'll live a happier life.
Todd this is your sand-box ..not mine ;
.and I had the immpression I could speaak my mind since I have read articles supporting my claims;
first I like State run lotterys's because that way it can be held accountable by the people and law enforcement; I want the state to continue lottery games ..but to disconnect them selves from corporate interest and insttutions like GETEC ;
I f a lottery needs a ticket -machine BUY them * dont lease 80,000 of them ;
have all draws overseen by the state police simular to Pennsy. lottery ; not KGMB ;
this way the lottery is fair and above board ....then disasters like Tenn. lottery would never happen;
report the amount of income the lottery makes from sales of each game daily not yearly
from the reports I see the largest payout in NY history was 12 million dollars but that was no where near the proffit made that day on the pick3 and 4 sales alone;
government and lottery's need to be more transparent in their operations !!!!
I don't expect you to believe Blacks or loww income consumers are targeted more unfairly than middle class or upperclass citizens ,but its true ;
the mom and Pops stores in low-income neighborhood are selling lottery tickets and
the amount of large winners who purchace lotto/instant tickets never win or
are far below national trends VS those same games sold in higher income neighborhoods or near the Govenors residence and Board members who over see the state run lottery ;
I hope I have cleared up this confusion , but my beliefs are mine and are not the same as everyone eleses .....the lottery is as only good as the citizens who Administer the system:
It doesn't matter whose sand-box this is. We both have equal abiltiy to speak our minds. You said your opinion, and I said mine.
Don't get upset and start implying you are being "silenced" or anything just because I put up a good argument.
I never said that there is no corruption at state lotteries. That would be pretty dumb if I did, considering the number of corruption stories I've published here in the past.
I said that I think the statement that "blacks are being manipulated" is not only wrong, but insulting. Also, the new article mentions POOR PEOPLE, NOT RACE. The amount of money you have is not a race issue, and I'm not about to make it one.
I have no idea where you get your statistics from, because I don't think you're using any. The actual statistics of winning ticket distribution consistently show that there is no bias against any particular geographic or socio-economic areas. It is completely dependent upon the number of tickets bought in the area.
Look, I am just voicing my opinions and I am trying to give you the benefit of my experience.
I have been keeping abreast of the lottery industry every single day for the past 8 years, as a result of running this site. Of course I have gained a lot of knowledge over that period. It only makes sense!
You are 100% entitled to your own opinion, and you can voice it with the same enthusiasm that I voice mine.
I am posting my opinions because:
I enjoy discussion lottery topics (why else would I have created this site?)
I have experience and knowledge to share
I like to make sure that all viewpoints are represented
I like to give people such as yourself other opinions to consider
I do not post my opinions in order to censor people. If I wanted to do that I'd erase your post. I don't censor opinions, only spam ads. If you agree or disagree, post away!
Lastly, when I readily spout facts and statistics, there is always a segment of people who start saying that I work for a lottery, or that I'm in cahoots with them.
So I will say proactively that nothing could be farther from the truth. I have never worked for or with a lottery. My opinions are my own. My facts and statistics are based upon my own research.
i didnt like State Rep. Garnett Coleman comparing the lottery to drug dealers. in my opinion there is no comparison between selling illegal drugs and lottery tickets.
It doesn't matter whose sand-box this is. We both have equal abiltiy to speak our minds. You said your opinion, and I said mine.
Don't get upset and start implying you are being "silenced" or anything just because I put up a good argument.
I never said that there is no corruption at state lotteries. That would be pretty dumb if I did, considering the number of corruption stories I've published here in the past.
I said that I think the statement that "blacks are being manipulated" is not only wrong, but insulting. Also, the new article mentions POOR PEOPLE, NOT RACE. The amount of money you have is not a race issue, and I'm not about to make it one.
I have no idea where you get your statistics from, because I don't think you're using any. The actual statistics of winning ticket distribution consistently show that there is no bias against any particular geographic or socio-economic areas. It is completely dependent upon the number of tickets bought in the area.
Look, I am just voicing my opinions and I am trying to give you the benefit of my experience.
I have been keeping abreast of the lottery industry every single day for the past 8 years, as a result of running this site. Of course I have gained a lot of knowledge over that period. It only makes sense!
You are 100% entitled to your own opinion, and you can voice it with the same enthusiasm that I voice mine.
I am posting my opinions because:
I enjoy discussion lottery topics (why else would I have created this site?)
I have experience and knowledge to share
I like to make sure that all viewpoints are represented
I like to give people such as yourself other opinions to consider
I do not post my opinions in order to censor people. If I wanted to do that I'd erase your post. I don't censor opinions, only spam ads. If you agree or disagree, post away!
Lastly, when I readily spout facts and statistics, there is always a segment of people who start saying that I work for a lottery, or that I'm in cahoots with them.
So I will say proactively that nothing could be farther from the truth. I have never worked for or with a lottery. My opinions are my own. My facts and statistics are based upon my own research.
said that I think the statement that "blacks are being manipulated" is not only wrong, but insulting. Also, the new article mentions POOR PEOPLE, NOT RACE. The amount of money you have is not a race issue, and I'm not about to make it one.
I have no idea where you get your statistics from, because I don't think you're using any. The actual statistics of winning ticket distribution consistently show that there is no bias against any particular geographic or socio-economic areas. It is completely dependent upon the number of tickets bought in the area.
WeLL I was infering that large chain stores and spermarkets with multiple locations who sell lottery tickets have larger winners with bigger payoffs than in small corner stores: These chain stores are also in the malls and plazzas in middle class america quite different than your foriegn nationals who own the vast number of mom and pop conner markets; When these stores sell lottery tickets ,this includes lotto,cash5 and&&instant tickets , their winngs are no where near the huge giveback they are in the larger chain stores;
welfare recipients play lottery in hopes of buying food and moving to a better life after a small windfall this does not happen so they keep trying and trying ...( how can the lottery target blacks and hispanics and not other races /
easy use .... corporate Phsychlologcal conditioning : Heck even Freud had no idea what can be the unconditioned responce of people with the right advertisement and media we are Blitzed with today ;
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Freud) May 6 1856 – September 23 1939; (IPA: ['zi?km?nt 'f???t]) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind, especially involving ...
If people can be fooled by majic on national TV or in person, who is to say we cannot be fooled by the lottery , they change the balls they work behind closed doors and we only see the stage set after the manipulation of operations during the draw .....I am not saying dont play I say we can all be targeted the media artical only pointed out the poor ....I am sure we are all targets and sheep for the slaughter: Look at 9/11 and then look at the evidence they have compiled against the 9/11 even though people looked and heard explosions and all the evidence pointing t o a cover up by our own government , yet nothing is done;
People feel helpless unless their told what to do @ We often only see what we want to see or expect , yet the truth be told ,we are all manipulated :
Everybody I know that plays numbers are not poor, uneducated, or a so-called minority. Remember what CBS stands for: Conspiratorial Broadcasting System.
They maybe #3 of the big three, but the big three are not what they used to be. They are actually much smaller if you compare by viewer shares. Hint: Look at Arbitron or Nielson.
Quote: Originally posted by computerhead723 on Oct 8, 2007
said that I think the statement that "blacks are being manipulated" is not only wrong, but insulting. Also, the new article mentions POOR PEOPLE, NOT RACE. The amount of money you have is not a race issue, and I'm not about to make it one.
I have no idea where you get your statistics from, because I don't think you're using any. The actual statistics of winning ticket distribution consistently show that there is no bias against any particular geographic or socio-economic areas. It is completely dependent upon the number of tickets bought in the area.
WeLL I was infering that large chain stores and spermarkets with multiple locations who sell lottery tickets have larger winners with bigger payoffs than in small corner stores: These chain stores are also in the malls and plazzas in middle class america quite different than your foriegn nationals who own the vast number of mom and pop conner markets; When these stores sell lottery tickets ,this includes lotto,cash5 and&&instant tickets , their winngs are no where near the huge giveback they are in the larger chain stores;
welfare recipients play lottery in hopes of buying food and moving to a better life after a small windfall this does not happen so they keep trying and trying ...( how can the lottery target blacks and hispanics and not other races /
easy use .... corporate Phsychlologcal conditioning : Heck even Freud had no idea what can be the unconditioned responce of people with the right advertisement and media we are Blitzed with today ;
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Freud) May 6 1856 – September 23 1939; (IPA: ['zi?km?nt 'f???t]) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind, especially involving ...
If people can be fooled by majic on national TV or in person, who is to say we cannot be fooled by the lottery , they change the balls they work behind closed doors and we only see the stage set after the manipulation of operations during the draw .....I am not saying dont play I say we can all be targeted the media artical only pointed out the poor ....I am sure we are all targets and sheep for the slaughter: Look at 9/11 and then look at the evidence they have compiled against the 9/11 even though people looked and heard explosions and all the evidence pointing t o a cover up by our own government , yet nothing is done;
People feel helpless unless their told what to do @ We often only see what we want to see or expect , yet the truth be told ,we are all manipulated :
It's not necessary to play the race card. People of all walks of life play the lottery and in every city and county where lotteries are sold. Winners come from many state areas also. A ticket holder no mater whom has the same chance of winning as every other ticket holder.
I have heard people say no one in Baltimore city has ever won the lottery. This is not a true statement there have been winners they just didn't go public about their win.
If they want a hit piece that works maybe they can cover the problems in the Tennessee Lottery is having and the problems with comuter drawings.
Wake up and smell the coffee CBS..! Lotteries don't target anyone one individual, where are you getting your information from? Christ, you can't even clean up your own backyard ( your stattion), and now you want to create something that is totally untrue again. Why are'nt you covering the Tenn cover-up in the lottery??? You don't become number three from reporting the truth, you become number three from reporting the trash.
Maybe Katie can become Ms.Hargroves press secretary, would'nt that clear up this situation.!
whats wrong with giving people a dream? After all thats probly the best part about hitting a lottery they should investagate how these numbers are drawn if anything
That interview is defintely slanted. Rent in that area must not be anymore than 250.00 per month. The utilities, gas and groceries must be free. It takes more than $15,000.00 per year to live even if you are a single person. Most of the people I know make at least 21+ thousand a year and most of the folks I know who play the lottery make almost $50,000.00 per year. The lottery offers it's players a dream that many can't seem to find in their job's retirement plans...a guaranteed stream of income which will provide for them in their golden years. This dream is not affected by greedy corporate types such as the owners and managers of the now defunct Enron corporation. My investment in this dream is strictly under my own control. I can choose to play or not.
The interview is factual ....Black individuals are manipulated and short changed into believing the lottery is fair and and honest ,......they are not and the corprorations which back and invest and sponser state lotterys are corupted;
I like to play the lottery everyday but do the sate change the balls ...YES...does that help them or the players ...it helps them :
instant t ickets ; are found only near the Governors residence for big winners the dollar tickets which sell in the millions are never real big 1.00 -100 max ...thats what the poor get back the millions go to the big ticket prizes and the profit from their ticket sales are pocketed :
enron wwas part of the 9/11 cover-up ;the world trade building housed the evidence for calf. eroen 7billion corruption scandal ...when world trad center went down so did the evidence to put the gulity people away ;see for yourself:
Excuse me, but that is a statement that you need to clarify, because I can't for the life of me make sense of it.
You said, "Black individuals are manipulated and short changed into believing the lottery is fair and and honest".
Please explain how state lotteries are able to pick out the black folks and make them believe the lottery is "fair and honest", but somehow all the white folks and other races are informed that it is a crooked enterprise.
I thought this was a poor vs. rich thing anyway, not a black/white thing.
The odd thing is that according to the lottery, it IS a fair and honest activity. So black people ... or ANYBODY for that matter ... would be correct in believing it is fair -- not "manupulated" as you say.
I just can't stand statements like yours that make everything a conspiracy against a certain race, or social status, or gender, or religion, or whatever. Has it occured to you that MOST people don't win jackpots?
Now, if you want to be upset at computerized drawings as a means to manipulate, then I'm with you on that. But that targets ALL players, not just the black players or the poor players, or whatever. It's unfair for EVERYBODY.
If you stop thinking everything is a conspiracy, you'll live a happier life.
If CBS wanted to allege anyone they should have went after state and federal government for adopting the lottery in the first place, and the reasons why states took over the numbers racket from the bookies.
oops i know why because it's a cash cow and the state and federal government couldn't figure out how to make extra money for this country so the opted for a sideline affair gambling. Siteing many different reasons benefiting the old, schools, teachers, fire departments, police dept, library's, stadium authority and every other general service in state and federal government to help offset taxes.
Yet even with the lottery in place in many states taxes still go up almost on a yearly basis. Why states don't divide their scratch games into several groups and or sell scratch games to generate money for their specific deficits behooves me.
People play the lottery because it's their for them to play and they advertise the dream of possible independent wealth. Who in their right mind would pass up a chance for that
Todd this is your sand-box ..not mine ;
.and I had the immpression I could speaak my mind since I have read articles supporting my claims;
first I like State run lotterys's because that way it can be held accountable by the people and law enforcement; I want the state to continue lottery games ..but to disconnect them selves from corporate interest and insttutions like GETEC ;
I f a lottery needs a ticket -machine BUY them * dont lease 80,000 of them ;
have all draws overseen by the state police simular to Pennsy. lottery ; not KGMB ;
this way the lottery is fair and above board ....then disasters like Tenn. lottery would never happen;
report the amount of income the lottery makes from sales of each game daily not yearly
from the reports I see the largest payout in NY history was 12 million dollars but that was no where near the proffit made that day on the pick3 and 4 sales alone;
government and lottery's need to be more transparent in their operations !!!!
I don't expect you to believe Blacks or loww income consumers are targeted more unfairly than middle class or upperclass citizens ,but its true ;
the mom and Pops stores in low-income neighborhood are selling lottery tickets and
the amount of large winners who purchace lotto/instant tickets never win or
are far below national trends VS those same games sold in higher income neighborhoods or near the Govenors residence and Board members who over see the state run lottery ;
I hope I have cleared up this confusion , but my beliefs are mine and are not the same as everyone eleses .....the lottery is as only good as the citizens who Administer the system:
It doesn't matter whose sand-box this is. We both have equal abiltiy to speak our minds. You said your opinion, and I said mine.
Don't get upset and start implying you are being "silenced" or anything just because I put up a good argument.
I never said that there is no corruption at state lotteries. That would be pretty dumb if I did, considering the number of corruption stories I've published here in the past.
I said that I think the statement that "blacks are being manipulated" is not only wrong, but insulting. Also, the new article mentions POOR PEOPLE, NOT RACE. The amount of money you have is not a race issue, and I'm not about to make it one.
I have no idea where you get your statistics from, because I don't think you're using any. The actual statistics of winning ticket distribution consistently show that there is no bias against any particular geographic or socio-economic areas. It is completely dependent upon the number of tickets bought in the area.
Look, I am just voicing my opinions and I am trying to give you the benefit of my experience.
I have been keeping abreast of the lottery industry every single day for the past 8 years, as a result of running this site. Of course I have gained a lot of knowledge over that period. It only makes sense!
You are 100% entitled to your own opinion, and you can voice it with the same enthusiasm that I voice mine.
I am posting my opinions because:
I do not post my opinions in order to censor people. If I wanted to do that I'd erase your post. I don't censor opinions, only spam ads. If you agree or disagree, post away!
Lastly, when I readily spout facts and statistics, there is always a segment of people who start saying that I work for a lottery, or that I'm in cahoots with them.
So I will say proactively that nothing could be farther from the truth. I have never worked for or with a lottery. My opinions are my own. My facts and statistics are based upon my own research.
i didnt like State Rep. Garnett Coleman comparing the lottery to drug dealers. in my opinion there is no comparison between selling illegal drugs and lottery tickets.
said that I think the statement that "blacks are being manipulated" is not only wrong, but insulting. Also, the new article mentions POOR PEOPLE, NOT RACE. The amount of money you have is not a race issue, and I'm not about to make it one.
I have no idea where you get your statistics from, because I don't think you're using any. The actual statistics of winning ticket distribution consistently show that there is no bias against any particular geographic or socio-economic areas. It is completely dependent upon the number of tickets bought in the area.
WeLL I was infering that large chain stores and spermarkets with multiple locations who sell lottery tickets have larger winners with bigger payoffs than in small corner stores: These chain stores are also in the malls and plazzas in middle class america quite different than your foriegn nationals who own the vast number of mom and pop conner markets; When these stores sell lottery tickets ,this includes lotto,cash5 and&&instant tickets , their winngs are no where near the huge giveback they are in the larger chain stores;
welfare recipients play lottery in hopes of buying food and moving to a better life after a small windfall this does not happen so they keep trying and trying ...( how can the lottery target blacks and hispanics and not other races /
easy use .... corporate Phsychlologcal conditioning : Heck even Freud had no idea what can be the unconditioned responce of people with the right advertisement and media we are Blitzed with today ;
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Everybody I know that plays numbers are not poor, uneducated, or a so-called minority. Remember what CBS stands for: Conspiratorial Broadcasting System.
They maybe #3 of the big three, but the big three are not what they used to be. They are actually much smaller if you compare by viewer shares. Hint: Look at Arbitron or Nielson.
U will never "C" an
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on the great state of TN.........from abc, cbs, nbc or cnn for.....
improper management ..........of the LOTTERY .........."ITSELF"!!
because, they are not in the business to INFORM the PUBLIC !!
the Lottery Post is about all the INFO
on the what's going on
"NOW" new's
(U or most people gona "GET")
LOL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> some of U need a ....>>>JACKPOT!
It's not necessary to play the race card. People of all walks of life play the lottery and in every city and county where lotteries are sold. Winners come from many state areas also. A ticket holder no mater whom has the same chance of winning as every other ticket holder.
I have heard people say no one in Baltimore city has ever won the lottery. This is not a true statement there have been winners they just didn't go public about their win.