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Old 06-02-2018, 05:49 PM
 
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Everyone knows the media is biased - left, right or ?

If they are controlled, then it's called censoring or communism.

If they are Not controlled then they have the right to Lie. (or twist the truth)

Even if you don't agree with them, wouldn't you want the Truth ?
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Old 06-02-2018, 05:58 PM
 
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Even if you don't agree with them, wouldn't you want the Truth ?

The truth becomes what the person(s) in charge want it to be. I'd rather be lied to.
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Old 06-02-2018, 06:01 PM
 
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" I will never lie to you, I'll always tell you some version of the truth"

Jack Nicholson
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Old 06-02-2018, 06:04 PM
 
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" I will never lie to you, I'll always tell you some version of the truth"

Jack Nicholson

Any major media outlet could use that quote as their slogan.
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Old 06-02-2018, 06:06 PM
 
Location: Caverns measureless to man...
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Everyone knows the media is biased - left, right or ?

If they are controlled, then it's called censoring or communism.

If they are Not controlled then they have the right to Lie. (or twist the truth)

Even if you don't agree with them, wouldn't you want the Truth ?
Who gets to decide what the truth is, and by what method do they determine that?
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Old 06-02-2018, 06:09 PM
 
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Everyone knows the media is biased - left, right or ?

If they are controlled, then it's called censoring or communism.

If they are Not controlled then they have the right to Lie. (or twist the truth)

Even if you don't agree with them, wouldn't you want the Truth ?
How do you know they are not?
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Old 06-02-2018, 06:21 PM
 
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How do you know they are not?
1 news station say one thing and the other says the opposite.

One of them is lying, or they both are.
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Old 06-02-2018, 06:36 PM
 
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1 news station say one thing and the other says the opposite.

One of them is lying, or they both are.
Or one of them is wrong, or they both are.

You don't seem to know much about how journalism works. Why don't you go to some news site and look at today's stories - pick out the parts that are factually wrong, and come back and tell us.
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Old 06-02-2018, 06:40 PM
 
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I do not like untruths in reporting, but I would rather take my chances with that than see the press lose the right to speak freely.
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Old 06-02-2018, 06:44 PM
 
Location: USA
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You can't use the law to "force" people to report "the facts," because then the law is used to decide upon what will be considered fact, and that is a horrible idea.

No, the problem is too many people aren't interested in the facts. That's how you end up with a sociopath president like Trump with a staggering number of obvious lies spewed regularly, and yet he's completely trusted by about 1 in 3 Americans. Even only reporting the facts in a case like that has no effect, because if it did, nobody would support Trump. But Trumpers are operating with emotions, not facts, so in the end, for some people the facts just don't matter.
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