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Most mainstream media is for Sheeple and Kool ade drinkers only. We have no unbiases news anymore, For some reason they think we aren't smart enough to make our own judgements with true information, or is it the fact that we may disagree with the politicaly correct crowd...?
Most mainstream media is for Sheeple and Kool ade drinkers only. We have no unbiases news anymore, For some reason they think we aren't smart enough to make our own judgements with true information, or is it the fact that we may disagree with the politicaly correct crowd...?
It is simpler than that. The boring factual non-profitable news networks that existed before 1980 have evolved into providing profitable infotainment. It is not really news, but it is entertaining and being presented as if it were news.
Most mainstream media is for Sheeple and Kool ade drinkers only. We have no unbiases news anymore, For some reason they think we aren't smart enough to make our own judgements with true information, or is it the fact that we may disagree with the politicaly correct crowd...?
Great video and thread, dreamofmonterey. The FBI also created terrorists out of mentally unstable OWS protestors. The War on "Terror" is a sham and racket. COINTELPRO and other CIA/FBI plots are proof that the establishment's interest do not align with the people of this country.
The voters don't know the difference between news and opinion, these days.
Try to tell someone that Bill O'Reilly, Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper, for example, don't do the news. They are opinion jockeys or on air personalities. It's okay that they take sides. It's phony when they claim they don't takes sides because that's what they are being paid for --- to have an opinion.
It doesn't help that politicians let the opinion jockeys interview them instead of the straight news people. But, it also doesn't help that the straight news people often have a second job as an opinion jockey on their same network.
The guy on some roof in Baghdad reporting about gunfire, for example, shouldn't be biased. The woman reporting on some white house scandal also shouldn't be biased. Those are your news people. In newspapers, the front page story shouldn't be biased. The columnists, though, are equivalent to the TV opinion jockeys.
A network or a newspaper can be biased if their straight news people don't cover a story or they bury it. That is the biggest example I see with bias.
The biggest idiots neither have an opinion or report the news. Those would be the anchor celebrities that just sit and read off the teleprompter every night on the big 3 broadcast networks. Miley Cyrus could do that. For all we know, they aren't smart enough to know if their network is omitting a story because all they do is read.
The voters don't know the difference between news and opinion, these days.
Try to tell someone that Bill O'Reilly, Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper, for example, don't do the news. They are opinion jockeys or on air personalities. It's okay that they take sides. It's phoney when they claim they don't takes sides because that's what they are being paid for --- to have an opinion.
It doesn't help that politicians let the opinion jockeys interview them instead of the straight news people. But, it also doesn't help that the straight news people often have a second job as an opinion jockey on their same network.
The guy on some roof in Baghdad reporting about gunfire, for example, shouldn't be biased. The woman reporting on some white house scandal also shouldn't be biased. Those are your news people. In newspapers, the front page story shouldn't be biased. The columnists, though, are equivalent to the TV opinion jockeys.
A network or a newspaper can be biased if their straight news people don't cover a story or they bury it. That is the biggest example I see with bias.
The biggest idiots neither have an opinion or report the news. Those would be the anchor celebrities that just sit and read off the teleprompter every night on the big 3 broadcast networks. Miley Cyrus could do that. For all we know, they aren't smart enough to know if their network is omitting a story because all they do is read.
I do not want the opinions of the broadcaster in my news. Present the facts, or provide both views of a controversy, and allow the viewer/reader to form their own opinion. When broadcasters form their own opinions, or use specially selected adjectives in order to deliberately interject their own opinion into a broadcast, then they are not journalists. They have become political pundits instead.
You also hit on another one of the reasons why I gave up my TV subscription 8 years ago. The media these days will go out of their way not to cover a story if it makes a Democrat President look bad, but will gladly manufacture fictitious stories to make a Republican President look bad.
For example, while Clinton was rigging the Haitian elections in 2000 that caused massive rioting and the deaths of hundreds, the US media was fixated on Elian Gonzalez and completely ignored the Haitian debacle. Even though the rigging of Haitian elections by Clinton was covered by every other non-US media source.
Or when Dan Rather's "60 Minutes" did a hatchet job on President Bush's prior military service with the National Guard using completely fabricated documents.
Once again demonstrating the there is no honor or integrity among liberal freaks.
Great video and thread, dreamofmonterey. The FBI also created terrorists out of mentally unstable OWS protestors. The War on "Terror" is a sham and racket. COINTELPRO and other CIA/FBI plots are proof that the establishment's interest do not align with the people of this country.
I do not want the opinions of the broadcaster in my news. Present the facts, or provide both views of a controversy, and allow the viewer/reader to form their own opinion. When broadcasters form their own opinions, or use specially selected adjectives in order to deliberately interject their own opinion into a broadcast, then they are not journalists. They have become political pundits instead.
You also hit on another one of the reasons why I gave up my TV subscription 8 years ago. The media these days will go out of their way not to cover a story if it makes a Democrat President look bad, but will gladly manufacture fictitious stories to make a Republican President look bad.
Agree about the double standard with regard to reporting.
Nice post and links CD, thanks! Crazy times! I agree October often seems to be a game changer.
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