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Originally Posted by Blackbird45
If the issue is the media, you have to understand no matter what you watch or what you're leaning, the media will hype whatever story they can get their hands on. If the media does not go to extremes either positive or negative most people would not pay attention.
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We have always had misleading media … newspapers (selling ads to exist), social media (gossip over fences, barbershops, beauty salons, water coolers @ work, billboards, etc), and politicians. It’s always been only partially factual to allow for interested audiences. The differences today is more penetrating means of communication….instant news in internet, deeper audiences via TV than radio/newspapers, social media blogs. Unfortunately, we also have more visibility of extremes…..right wing versus left left wing politics, have versus have nots, legal versus illegal, and litigation systems left open for the taking. Similar problems viewed with bigger magnifying glasses.