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I guess I am just too old. I miss the good old days, when the news was presented with mainly facts, the editorials came at the end of the show, and not the entire show. I expected politicians to exaggerate, pontificate, and use hyperbole ad nauseum (lie). It's what they do. Now, all news is slanted. The days of truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are over. I am a semi intelligent, semi educated man and just want facts. I will make up my own mind. If I want to be preached to, I will go to church.
Back when the media was left-wing, but they at least pretended to be objective. Now their far-left bias is right out there on display for the whole world to see.
I guess I am just too old. I miss the good old days, when the news was presented with mainly facts, the editorials came at the end of the show, and not the entire show. I expected politicians to exaggerate, pontificate, and use hyperbole ad nauseum (lie). It's what they do. Now, all news is slanted. The days of truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are over. I am a semi intelligent, semi educated man and just want facts. I will make up my own mind. If I want to be preached to, I will go to church.
Hopefully Trump will start his own news program and you'll get all the news you want, exactly the way you want it, unfiltered by the truth.
Right now, the only place to get the real truth is from Trump's twitter feed.
Spare us this high road crap. You are sympathetic to those guys and make no demands that they take the "high road". According to you they are "stating opinions".
Example:
The list goes on and on.
You go that right, both of them are about as unprofessional as you can get and I bet both were picked on while on the playground.
Both could easily be replaced by parakeets. "Liberal" next caller "Liberal' and same line over and over. I wonder how many times they say the word 'liberal' a day.
I guess I am just too old. I miss the good old days, when the news was presented with mainly facts, the editorials came at the end of the show, and not the entire show. I expected politicians to exaggerate, pontificate, and use hyperbole ad nauseum (lie). It's what they do. Now, all news is slanted. The days of truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are over. I am a semi intelligent, semi educated man and just want facts. I will make up my own mind. If I want to be preached to, I will go to church.
I find the news shows I watch -- I don't watch much of the political pundit shows -- give just the facts.
And the editorial at the end of my news half hour is usually just a feel good story -- it is rarely about anything controversial or political.
You just need to find your 'news' show and get off cable.
I guess I am just too old. I miss the good old days, when the news was presented with mainly facts, the editorials came at the end of the show, and not the entire show. I expected politicians to exaggerate, pontificate, and use hyperbole ad nauseum (lie). It's what they do. Now, all news is slanted. The days of truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are over. I am a semi intelligent, semi educated man and just want facts. I will make up my own mind. If I want to be preached to, I will go to church.
It does get tiresome, seeing the same things getting analyzed to death during a 24-hour news cycle. I do miss the days of Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley. 30 minutes for the local news, 30 minutes for the national news. I think we all would be a lot better off if it were still that way.
It does get tiresome, seeing the same things getting analyzed to death during a 24-hour news cycle. I do miss the days of Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley. 30 minutes for the local news, 30 minutes for the national news. I think we all would be a lot better off if it were still that way.
I don't see the analysis that you do.
I tune in at 6:30 to see the big stories and I watch local stuff. And then I'm done.
If I want to try and get a better handle on a story I meant check in on line to some analysis...but I'm not going to sit in front of any cable show and watch them bicker over the facts or spin the story.
It does get tiresome, seeing the same things getting analyzed to death during a 24-hour news cycle. I do miss the days of Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley. 30 minutes for the local news, 30 minutes for the national news. I think we all would be a lot better off if it were still that way.
I agree. That was when news reporting was professional and you didn't have the talk radio clowns we have now.
It does get tiresome, seeing the same things getting analyzed to death during a 24-hour news cycle. I do miss the days of Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley. 30 minutes for the local news, 30 minutes for the national news. I think we all would be a lot better off if it were still that way.
And with commercials, it was more like 18 minutes a night. During that time, there was still bias in the choosing of what was covered, what was not covered and how it was covered. They did not always get it right. But with a limit of 18 minutes a night, they could largely be expected to limit themselves to factual news reports.
With 24/7 news coverage, they cannot control themselves. The financial burden is too great, the audience too fragmented and the attention spans of the audience members (us) are too short. The media cannot maintain any sort of fact-based journalistic discipline while they are focused on ratings and advertising revenues. The whole process has become entirely corrupt.
There is no fix for this, other than that people need to use their own brains, do not blindly trust ANY of these people, and be sure to season your news diet with plenty of dissenting perspectives, because some of these people lie, some of them are incompetent, and some of them are just inadvertently wrong from time to time.
It is up to everyone to be diligent and think for yourselves. Our civilization may well depend on it going forward.
I tune in at 6:30 to see the big stories and I watch local stuff. And then I'm done.
If I want to try and get a better handle on a story I meant check in on line to some analysis...but I'm not going to sit in front of any cable show and watch them bicker over the facts or spin the story.
I have to admit that sometimes I do. It's addicting.
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