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I hope the larger part of the population stops giving them reason to peddle what they have been peddling for some time now.
Real news is usually boring when all them pesky facts get in the way and you are not sensationalizing something. I laugh every time they have the lead in for ABC nightly news... Breaking news.... every night.
Here is some news reporting without all the flashing lights....
When it comes to the mainstream media - ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. - it's not what they're reporting that you need to know. It's what they're NOT reporting that's important. A well studied, informed person knows lies by omissions, outright omissions, outright lies, and pure bias when he/she sees it. If you don't know, then you don't know when you are being misled. That's what these "leftist mouthpieces" rely on - which is you the viewer to be too stupid to know any different. When you don't know what you don't know, then anything coming from the news will sound accurate.
As my wife can tell you, I can rebut 90% of all news being reported by the mainstream media by filling in blanks that they refuse to talk about. When you're well-informed, you're able to do that.
Just did a random search on effects of news on people.
Dr. Mary McNaughton-Cassill, an associate psychology professor at the University of Texas-San Antonio, told HuffPost Live that she’s personally seen how a lot of coverage of something, like 9/11 and the movie theatre shootings in Aurora, Colo., can induce feelings of either depression, anxiety, or anger.
People have never before in the history of the world lived where they were surrounded with so much media and information,” McNaughton-Cassill said. “So 100 years ago, if there was a disaster and you were in it, you actually had some direct things you needed to do to cope. But you weren’t aware of everything going on around you, therefore weren’t as overwhelmed.”
The main difference between today and prior news coverage is social media. Seventy-four percent of online adults use social media networks, according to Pew Research Center, with half of these users using the site for daily news. Additionally, 78 percent of Facebook users (which reaches more adults than any other site) indirectly see shared news stories. Cue the stress.
“When our brain perceives a threatening situation, our bodies begin to produce stress hormones that enter the brain and may modulate memories of stressful or negative events,”
I got 5 out of 6, missed the last one since I had heard of neither, so took a wild guess and guessed wrong. The rest were easy if you do not just believe anything you see reported.
Cable news is traditionally not considered the mainstream media. Both ideologies are represented on cable news, no doubt. But the difference is that FOX has always has a rightward bent, whereas CNN has historically held itself out as a non-biased, objective news outlet. That is not true any longer....but they have made no attempt whatsoever to admit to that. CNN still lays claim to straight news - which is not even close to true and everyone knows it. MSNBC is simply the left version of FOX.
As far as mainstream media goes, I defy you to show how ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. are anything but leftist mouthpieces. They are the ones who should be held to account, but of course they are not because they feed liberal confirmation bias. Harvard found this bias to be true, but I have yet to hear any teeth gnashing and course correction demands from liberals:
Do you think there will be a tipping point in the Media and how they write articles and what they report on?
Where they will crash and wake up.
So. it can go back to good ole fashion real journalism.
Where reporters research, get the facts, and then report it without bias and shock value.
Do you think most Americans will stand up and have enough, so the Media has to change?
What will it take?
please don't turn this into Presidents against Presidents. Keep it media focused. Thanks
We made freedom of speech a right because we recognized the possibility those in power might want to silence critics. Print media has always done a very good job of being America's watch dog. Remember, it was the Washington Post that exposed Nixon and his men in the first place.
America came to rely on the media as a safe place to go when they saw powerful people engage in corruption, criminal acts, etc. When cable TV news came along, they didn't follow long established practices. Internet media is a virtual wasteland.
You use terms like, "wake up" and "the media has to change" which indicates you do not think they are doing a good job. You mention going back to "good ole fashion real journalism" but the rest of your post indicates you don't know what that is.
"Good ole fashion real journalism" is the stuff of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. "Good ole fashion real journalism" is what the Washington Post and New York Times are engaging in now, the stuff some person who cannot be mentioned here considers fake news.
To answer your question - No! I do not want to see the media censor itself because there are a few people in this country who would rather get confirmation of their beliefs than know the truth.
Affirmation may feel good but it leaves you vulnerable to becoming a lemming.
If you are talking about the hypothetical "objective" media, it has never existed and will never exist. See Cronkite interview Rand for an example of the "good old days" of media "objectivity". They have always been a cesspool of pseudo "intellectual" collectivists, imposing their evil ideology, upon the droolers. These are people who wish to influence, not "report". It will always be that way.
They will react to how poeple like to receive their news.
It's up to the general public to decide this.
So far, it doesn't appear...even with all the "fake news!" bereavements going on that people ACTUALLY want their news delievered differently.
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