[sajoe]

I believe the basic issue with "news" is commercialism. Advertisers are not interested in people who question what they are told and by whom. A story of alien babies or kittens draws people the advertisers want and will pay to advertise to. Is the public school system educating our children to a higher level than when we were growing up? Does that also apply to voters? We get what we ask for.

[retiredguy123]

I don't like it when the news people allow themselves to be used as pawns for the Government. They are always stating things as "fact" when you know that they are just repeating what a Government official told them. For example, how can they verify what happens in a war zone where they don't have any reporters, and how do they know how many troops are in a particular area? Another example is when they reported several years ago that the President had to "cut his vacation in Hawaii short" to return to Washington. They all reported that as an absolute fact, when they had no way to know when the president had actually intended to return to Washington. If they don't know that something is a fact, they should not state it as a fact.

[tophcfa]

I try to watch some news from each side of the obviously bias news outlets and then draw my own conclusions about what is really true. Usually over time it comes out that the real truth lies somewhere in the middle.

[Chi-Town]

Nothing new in the news.

Henry David Thoreau’s views of 19th-century media resonate today


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[l2ridehd]

We all seem to believe that the news is a bunch of bad information. How do we change it? They have to be losing audience viewing. TV, newspapers, and even magazines are losing readership and audience share. They all want to blame the internet. But that is not the reason. The real reason is they report garbage. Why don't at least one form of media realize the real issue and change?

[PennBF]

Unfortunately the current people who pretend they are providing news when in fact it is just opinions have disgraced all of the great "Newsmen" who have gone before them and were true news people! To go a step further, since these people were raised with no or limited ethics and standards we are left with the bottom of the barrel trying to convince us and influence us based on the money supporting their weak minded fact starved opinions! A famous person once said the United Statess would never be defeated from outside but could be from within. This is now an actual possibility. Lets pray we continue to have faith in God.

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by billethkid

I prefer various on line news sources, foreign and domestic where I can pick, choose, sort what I want to read or not.
Hence it is what I want not what the networks and lettered news is promoting.

I was not going to admit that I get my American news from foreign sources, but I do. I listen to BBC where the news is read in a very dispassionate manner by a robotic type female. She reads whatever is before her with no emotion whatsoever - just the news!!! Then I also watch news on PBS which is presented in a very similar manner. I do watch Fareed on a Sunday.

Right now, at this moment in time, I think it extremely important that we know what is happening to our beautiful country.

[Taltarzac725]

Try a wide range of different news programs. Or just Google various issues you are interested in at the time. I still like CBS, ABC, and NBC for the Evening news. There is not that much opinion thrown into these. The cable stations have a lot of talking heads giving their opinions on subjects.

It does all come down to money though and advertising on these stations.

[njbchbum]

Originally Posted by eweissenbach

I think that most real journalists report the news accurately. The reason many people distrust the truth in the news is because of the distortions and outright untruths that some people spread to further their own agenda and sow seeds of doubt about the truth.

I think the problem today is finding any "real journalist"! Are there any left and how does one find them?

[New Englander]

Originally Posted by cypress

I just watch the local news now. I gave up on the national news shows.

Same here.

[Velvet]

My impression is news is not to inform you but to influence you. In some places, outright brainwash you. Watch or read with discretion! my father said to me. (That is one reason why I read several newspapers from different countries in several languages. The other is, I’m just addicted.)

About the weather channel, my family was at Cape Hatteras when they predicted a strong hurricane. When the winds didn’t live up to their expectations, they had fans on the reporter, but the sea oats in the background showed the true story. They just didn’t want to disappoint their viewers, I guess.

[JoMar]

It's all politics, money and trying to fill 24 hours with something. Employees will do what the employers ask them to do and when a station takes a political side the reporters will follow. The alternative is to leave the station and find another job. The "old" days had limited time so they reported the facts without in depth analysis. Now they hire analysts from political parties that bring their bias or agenda. Walter Cronkite was a Democrat but nobody knew that when he was reporting. All MHO.

[Kenswing]

When 6 corporations own 90% of the media they can easily force feed a narrative..

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by njbchbum

I think the problem today is finding any "real journalist"! Are there any left and how does one find them?

Don Lemon is a journalist and a news anchor. I just Googled it.

[bagboy]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

Don Lemon is a journalist and a news anchor. I just Googled it.

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