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Originally Posted by ChrisTinaBruce
Journalists biases, although a natural human tendency, use to be some what tempered. Cronkite, Wallace, Reasoner, Schieffer, Rather all had political leanings not to difficult to ascertain. The difference between then and now is the lack of critical thinking, individualism, and self reliance taught to our children. Thereby a generation of self centered and entitled people are providing validity to the current entertainment news media and agendas.
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The difference is a full 30 to 60 minute broadcast to cover all the news versus cable news channels 24 hours a day with not enough news, thus guests and opinions. Conspiracy theories, thankfully, never saw the light of day. Fringe groups were exactly that....on the fringe.
News is still the news...opinion is still opinion. We have changed also in that we now have so many vehicles to check until we find "news" we like.