This is absolutely true. Mass media and the Internet have transformed the industry (not just news outlets) into little more than vectoring tools for political and marketing money - nothing else. So much of this so-called "information" is cleverly cloaked with ulterior motive innuendo. It's easy to see on the slow news days, and injected into actual news at every opportunity. Bad crash on the interstate? Follow-up commercial break features Toyota's latest safety gadget. Alot of people fall for it. It works. Keep those eyes on the screen and the dollars flowing.
Agree with the above. Suggestion: Watch one evening of Fox World News. Watch another of RT World News. Truth is in there somewhere, It`s up to you to find it.
I used to believe the weather man 50 years ago. The weather was always the same. Sunny or rainy. When I grew up I left Los Angeles and the news has never been the same for me. Call me a late bloomer.
Read any Time, Life, Look or other mainstream magazine published anytime before 1980. There's your proof.
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy. The media are made up of people the people are a product of their environment. As democracy overtakes our republic the masses media included will vote to for a more authoritarian approach to allocating resources. The news was never objective it was the people were products of a system. The news used to report things not give opinion peices. We have become a nation of statist begging for a police state. Education is key. Critical thinking is not encouraged in our state ran schools and more and more look to the media talking heads to tell them what and how to think. The news should report what is happening and we can determine on our own through critical thinking and analyzing know facts not opinions what is going on. Also the time period you talk of reporting was 99% on regional news not national or world wide. We spend way too much time worrying about people who we have never met and never will. Sent from my SM-G935V using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Our free democracy ended and failed in 1971. Only one eventuality remains for our federal government, collapse and final demise. The only question is whether it will take the civilized world with it when it goes.
For news I like RT Ron Paul Mises Rogan. To name a few. Then I surf the big three and cable news for opinions to gauge what will be mainstream thought by ends week. I purposely watch different opinions so YouTube doesn't enclose me in too tight of a echo chamber. TV and papers are a bad source for news it all has to be wrapped up in 500 words or less or small sound bites. The internet allows for long hand conversations and the public is eating it up. Credible news sources that look deep into subjects are available for us to be a part of. The Rubin report Jimmy Dore, and Joe Rogan are a testament of this. Joe Rogan is now the biggest reporter in the history of mankind. He has over 1 billion downloads a year counting his podcast and YouTube. His interviews of political experts recieve more views than all the networks combined. He has had extended interviews with many of the democratic candidates with all of them getting huge responses in viewership. The old way of reporting news is dying and it's a great thing. The 15 second soundbite is coming to a end. The public wants more in depth information not political sound bites and reporters opinions that back our own biases. Sent from my SM-G935V using Grasscity Forum mobile app
For you Fox News believers - yesterday on Fox News, a republican strategist, David Avella claimed that marijuana users inject themselves with it. Just one of the many ignorant right wingers who believes that shit - and there are many more watching that believe it as well. And we wonder why it isn't legal yet?
I don't think it's so much about objectivity or subjectivity of any one story more than it is about a selection of the stories presented. No one source gives a complete view of the world. Most seek to cater to an audience on the spectrum that wants to read things that confirm their worldview, and demonizes the opposing worldview. I read a multitude of different sources, from across the spectrum. I've found that rarely do news sources lie outright about reality - but they present different segments of it, that can present different realities. A far-right news source in Europe will tell you about every gang-rape committed by Muslim migrants, and none of the good deeds - and a far-left news source will tell you about every good deed done by Muslim migrants, and none of the gang-rapes. None of the cases are untrue, but read only one and you get a distorted view. Be wary of partisanship.
I agree. PBS is also on Youtube without much delay if any and you can skip over news items that you have no interest in then lock on on an item you find interesting or newsworthy. Also on Youtube The Real News but "conservatives" may feel they are too left. Left in respect to far right imo... ;o)
CBP (@CBP) on Twitter ICE (@ICEgov) on Twitter USCIS (@USCIS) on Twitter These might be a bit too close to home for most.
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