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One video, what about how the biased media sugarcoated BLM riots where cities across the nation were burned, vandalized, innocent people people terrorized, and normal life disrupted.
That video is actually a compilation of many videos!
If you watched it, you would know this and would also be able to comment accordingly.
This is my belief. I think the media in all forms is mostly (not entirely) to blame for the current situation in the US. They are paid to get views/subscribers/clicks/links/tweets etc. This means the more extreme headlines and stories, the ones that will scare the most, stand to be winners in the lottery of advertising.
Both sides are guilty of this. I have seen many twisted or just left out facts from stories from the left leaning sources and I have seen the same from Fox and others. You have extreme media on the left telling their followers the world will end because of conservatives or Trump, and you have the right media telling them the world will end because of the democrats and Biden etc.
I don't know what the solution is. The media watchdogs are corrupted as well by advertising dollars or donations from "interested" parties. Where does it end?
I feel the entire media platform needs to be shut down and start over. I don't see a way out or this ending soon. Any ideas?
The media use to investigate and report the news regardless who was the president, they don’t anymore and are more activists, remember the kid who cnn claiming he walked up to a Native American protesting and blocked his way? Turns out the boys were just waiting for their ride and it was the Native American that walked up to him. Reason why the kid won the lawsuit. Because of that this kid and the school received death threats.
This is my belief. I think the media in all forms is mostly (not entirely) to blame for the current situation in the US. They are paid to get views/subscribers/clicks/links/tweets etc. This means the more extreme headlines and stories, the ones that will scare the most, stand to be winners in the lottery of advertising.
Both sides are guilty of this. I have seen many twisted or just left out facts from stories from the left leaning sources and I have seen the same from Fox and others. You have extreme media on the left telling their followers the world will end because of conservatives or Trump, and you have the right media telling them the world will end because of the democrats and Biden etc.
I don't know what the solution is. The media watchdogs are corrupted as well by advertising dollars or donations from "interested" parties. Where does it end?
I feel the entire media platform needs to be shut down and start over. I don't see a way out or this ending soon. Any ideas?
I think it is lazy to blame the media. It implies we consumers of the media take no responsible for how we use the media.
Media is broad specrtrum of outlets -- online, in print, on tv, on radio, in magazine. Lumping it all as one big nasty enemy bringing the country down -- we imply the rest of us are mindless idiots.
We want to change things -- sotp blaming 'others' -- own it and do our part.
I'll be interested to see how Biden deals with opposition.
Name calling, personal attacks within parties and between parties and internationally became the norm.....I do see Biden hurling insults at someone's physical appearance or mannerisms if they say they think his foreign policy is not the best for the country. But I could be wrong.
We will have to wait and see.
If Americans want to tone down the discord -- we shouldn't be looking to the press to do it - -we should be doing it.
I cannot think of anything more devoid of personal responsibility than blaming any media source for people who demand lies and tales that comfort and nurture their mistaken beliefs. These people can change the channel, read a book, explore alternative viewpoints and news sources and they choose not too.
The media is not responsible for anything that uneducated or uninformed people seek out. The media is merely choosing to participate in our free market environment. Their business model is to make as much as they can by providing people what they want. We accept that the alcohol and tobacco industry is merely filling a demand by providing a toxic product with many health related problems. We accept that the oil industry is simply filling a need, even if the air quality suffers.
But somehow "the media" should walk away from the very demand that ensures their profits? No, people need to be held fully responsible for their choices, not given excuses to remain ignorant.
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The media is not just part of the problem, the media is the problem.
This is true. We as individuals have absolutely no frame of reference to what constitutes this thing called America that 350 million live in. The media shapes the narrative to which we identify with and live by.
This is my belief. I think the media in all forms is mostly (not entirely) to blame for the current situation in the US. They are paid to get views/subscribers/clicks/links/tweets etc. This means the more extreme headlines and stories, the ones that will scare the most, stand to be winners in the lottery of advertising.
Both sides are guilty of this. I have seen many twisted or just left out facts from stories from the left leaning sources and I have seen the same from Fox and others. You have extreme media on the left telling their followers the world will end because of conservatives or Trump, and you have the right media telling them the world will end because of the democrats and Biden etc.
I don't know what the solution is. The media watchdogs are corrupted as well by advertising dollars or donations from "interested" parties. Where does it end?
I feel the entire media platform needs to be shut down and start over. I don't see a way out or this ending soon. Any ideas?
media is to blame. I don't know about shutting it down though.
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