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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
I'm glad given all that we've seen and experienced from our government in the last few years, maybe longer, that you can remain optimistic that our political parties will reach a compromise solution...on anything! I'm sorry that I can't share your positive hopes.
As far as what the media reports on, to a huge degree they feed the public what the public wants to hear. The conservative media reports on events or actions by the liberals designed to enrage and embitter their readers and listeners against the liberals. The liberal media does exactly the opposite. The "din" between the two makes it difficult to find a really balanced media source. Conservatives listen to the conservative media sources, and the liberals listen to the liberals. The result is that the partisans, and the people they elect to represent them, are driven farther and farther apart. And it definitely gives one a headache!
Why does the public continue to endure and empower a "fourth estate" like this? For a public that either refuses or is incapable of doing the arithmetic on fiscal issues, fails to understand the broader implications of foreign relations, and has limited understanding on how economics really works, why would you expect anything different?
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First, since you are so pessimistic, are you making moves to shelter yourself during the fall off the cliff ?
The media is awful, just plain awful so much so it is a disgrace. I have begun a few threads on this and brought it up in a number of other posts within threads. NOBODY seems to care on here anyway, and as I said earlier today and you have just said also, the media is NOT informing us correctly...NOT even close and it appears that people watch/read only the media that will confirm what they want confirmed OR where the most likeable folks are presenting the news.
As a thought, I am half way complete with the new book CONKRITE and it does in fact give examples of how administrations, both parties, try to manipulate the news.
THAT makes for a very uninformed public and certainly answers how we get such ineffective leadership.