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I have to sit back & laugh when I hear people talk about the MSM and Fox News. Fox is part of the MSM. They just have a different slant. My wife watches Fox exclusively while I get all of my news from a couple online sources, not wiki-whatever...
I watch MSNBC, CNN and BBC America...I also listen to NPR. On Sundays I watch the McLaughlin Group, Chris Matthews and Meet the Press. I don't think the media suppresses news...I think that most citizens close themselves off from stuff they don't want to hear and pick and choose their news a la carte style.
But why is any of this Charlotte specific...shouldn't this thread have been moved 2 pages ago?
Local channels are tied into national channels, usually.
I watch the public service channels sometimes. CPCC has some good interviews on at times. I even watch the city and county commissioner meetings (well, listen to them in the background).
I think we need stronger investigative reporting on our local news outlets and would like to see more of that - really digging into issues - and not just crime blotter re-hashes. We all know there is gonna be a shooting overnight, somewhere, in this city.
Local channels are tied into national channels, usually.
I watch the public service channels sometimes. CPCC has some good interviews on at times. I even watch the city and county commissioner meetings (well, listen to them in the background).
I think we need stronger investigative reporting on our local news outlets and would like to see more of that - really digging into issues - and not just crime blotter re-hashes. We all know there is gonna be a shooting overnight, somewhere, in this city.
Fair enough, I have to admit that with all the relocating I have done the past decade...I have become rather lapse about investing my attention to local news/ issues. It often just doesn't show up on my radar :-)
Fair enough, I have to admit that with all the relocating I have done the past decade...I have become rather lapse about investing my attention to local news/ issues. It often just doesn't show up on my radar :-)
I read alot of news on internet MSN, CNN, Bloomberg and a couple of out of town newspapers and Observer. I'm working out at Y and switching thru 4 TVs and listen to Fox and see town hall rallys including about 8-10,000 in Ohio rallying about Healthcare. I also see the Senator from PA (can't remember name) that was a Dem switched to Rep and went back to Dem. He is getting reamed by some citizens. I also heard how the current administration strong armed the TV stations to broadcast his press conference on Healthcare, amazing. I will say this about Fox, at least do report the news. I do think there is a grassroots revolution development going on and we are losing our freedoms and the liberal media is trying to supress what REALLY is going on.
The media is a business. I have had little trust in the media from Viet Nam to date. They have their own goals, and it is selling the news, and gaining power. I don’t think they would recognize the truth if it ran over them with a truck. If they did they would change it to sell more copies. The best thing to happen for us new addicts is the World Wide Web. It makes it much harder for us to be lied too.
... I will say this about Fox, at least do report the news. I do think there is a grassroots revolution development going on and we are losing our freedoms and the liberal media is trying to supress what REALLY is going on.
Z, Fox News is so right-wing biased, I really can't stand to listen to the filtered rationalization. Folks at Fox are greatly responsible for spreading fear and increasing the public's anxiety to all new levels. Sorry friend, but I find those folks inept, uninformed and sold out! To be fair all news media suppress information and manipulate viewers into a polarized frenzy of lemmings. Fox does it with hot blond, leggy women to make swallow the pill easier.
I don't think they're writing the discontent off as lunacy, except maybe the birthers. I mean, they are lunatics. But a lot of this health care discontent is manufactured by lobbyist groups. Acting as if it's grass-roots is too simplistic. There are playbooks going around for people to disrupt town hall meetings. I think media has an obligation to uncover the facts and make connections betwwen them, no matter which political party looks bad in the process. I think CNN comes closest to that, though they do a lot of coverage of crap. Fox News is bought and sold by the right wing and I don't trust a word of it. They didn't cover the "tea parties" they were cheerleaders and organizers of them. And they're pumping up this fake outrage. MSNBC is almost as bad on the left.
I don't think "reading the facts as they happen" is enough for a news organization.
BTW, before you jump down my throat, I am sure there are many people against this health care reform, but there is no "spontaneous" movement against it. Someone is behind the shocktroops at the town halls.
I think it is funny that people call ANY media in the USA "liberal". Americans have no idea what real liberal media is like. That has been eliminated from here for at least a generation. It's all corporate controlled media and just by a few individuals who are not interested in rocking the boat.
That's the 100% truth. In america, big business and corporations run the media. A story doesn't air unless it is approved by a corporate VP somewhere. I don't care what channel you're watching.
I'm pleasantly surprised so many people claim to listen to the BBC. I've always enjoyed getting an outsider's perspective. The BBC is a great source of info.
I wonder how many people have taken the time to listen/watch any middle eastern news networks over the past few years. It's shocking to see how the perspective is different. Might make quite a few of us feel differently about our current viewpoints.
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Fox News are you serious?
