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Originally Posted by Geewiz
Most of what passes for news is commentary - a trend started by Fox and now picked up by MSNBC. Of course, as we dumb down...folks accept this for reality.
The truth is that we are in a rapid cycle of de-evolution...kids can't afford college and when they manage to go they get nothing but a technical education.
As the center of the circle cannot hold and things spin out of control folks no longer trust political institutions and turn on each other - hence the hard on for guns. We use to be a united states -- except for that small bit when we needed to abandon the concept of one person owning another (because doing so was repugnant).
Now, billionaires and corporations pit us against each other using labels that play to base sensibilities...when, in fact, what we all want is security, value for our taxes, taking care of our neighbors when they are in real need and a better future for our children.
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Started by FOX?????????? ABC, CBS, and NBC started reporting opinion vs news long before FOX was even on the air. They created the market for FOX and all the other cable news networks by NOT reporting the news.
Today the so called "third estate" has completely stopped doing their job. I cannot believe or trust the reporting on either side of an issue. The information is so tainted with the opinion of the reporter that it is false information. The real facts of most stories come out so long after the incident that created the story, that they are then worthless.
Today I feel I can never believe anything I see reported by either side of the mainstream media. Such a sad state what journalism has fallen to that we no longer believe what they report. I live in Northern VA and it is probably worse here do to the Washington influence, but here it is worthless information. I canceled all newspapers because they report opinion vs news and I never watch TV news for the same reason. When I hear about an issue, I have to do my own research to find any accurate information.