OrangeBlossomBaby |
06-28-2020 09:44 PM |
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Originally Posted by Luisa
(Post 1794134)
I can’t tell you how many people I’ve heard say they don’t watch the news anymore. You would think the media would get the message we are disgusted with their one sided, hateful, and racist reporting.
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I watch news - not op-eds, not news SHOWS - but actual newscasts, live reporting, investigative journalism reports.
I watch it because I want to know what's going on in the world. I don't want to hear it from some guy who posted on the internet what he heard about from his sister who got an e-mail from a blog she subscribes to that describes an event that was published by Weekly World News 3 years ago.
I watch it, and then I check references. If a newscast says "This legislator just passed that bill" I will know that there's a bill of interest to me, and I can search online for the actual government website that has the bill itself published, and I can read that bill and see exactly what's in it.
I can't do that, if I don't know that there's a bill of interest in the first place.
I can't look outside my window and decide that it's going to thunderstorm in 5 hours, based on what I see. I need to check the weather - which is news.
I can't know that I should probably check my schedule tomorrow and see if I'm even supposed to be at work at all, if I don't know that the governor has ordered all supermarkets to close. And I won't know that this is TRUE - unless I first see it on an actual news report, which will prompt me to check the governor's website for the official announcement. Or if I'm lucky I'll be able to catch that announcement live - on the news.
I check the news to be informed about current events. You don't have to, but then you'll be uninformed, and won't really have anything to contribute to any conversation about current events.
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