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When looking for information about any political topic, everything is presented as a "blog" or an editorial -- or Wikipedia, which is user-edited. It seems like one has to go straight to government documents and pore through them to just get a summary.
The news media, no matter which network or publication, all seem to have some sort of bias or editorial spin to it.
I think that this environment further polarizes the United States and obfuscates easy access to information.
It seems like one has to devote an inordinate amount of time trying to get facts and more or less objective data about anything.
Am I alone in this observation, sentiment, and frustration?
Sure, there will be partisan responses and outlooks (this news channel versus that one, etc), but let's think for a minute about journalism and access to information. It seems like, with our current technology, we have much more opportunity to voice our opinions but at the sacrifice of having less access to the information that allows us to be more objectively informed.
This is a trend I've observed over the past 10 years or so, and I do see a direct correlation to Internet usage -- however, it's manifested in the print and broadcast media more as well.
That is the result of the media consolidating into a handful of companies. A better situation would be the elimination of the licensing that holds the public airwaves under Government control. How about giving back to the public the spectrum that used to be dedicated to analog TV?
Don't expect to get it from certain people on here either. They loooooooove to post blog links & then present it as "fact". It's a daily occurrence, perhaps you've noticed?
Real news is no fun. You never find anything heavily weighted to one issue or another, nothing completely insane, nothing that polarizes people to the degree that the fake stuff does. Even better when you have photoshopped images.
Well, start your own news organization. There's nothing stopping you. I think that "Big News" has tailored their selection of anchors, and their individual partisan coverage of news stories, to their viewership. CNN is liberal. FOX News is conservative. We have Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly as our commentators, again, because FOX News has a large conservative viewership. If you want to start your own nonpartisan news organization, go ahead. I'll give it a watch/listen.
You get more US news from foreign sites than here in the US. The US sites only seem to be concerned about what's happening with celebraties and their sordid escapades.
You are not alone. When Charlie Gibson retired I was thinking that he was one of the few news people left that, after watching him for many years, I still did not have the slightest idea if he is a democrat, republican, or neither. There are very few real news sources left. More and more sound like the National Enquirer.
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