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News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 8:27:53 PM

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Who says Americans are clueless?

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Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low

The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.

Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.

Similarly, only about a quarter (26%) now say that news organizations are careful that their reporting is not politically biased, compared with 60% who say news organizations are politically biased. And the percentages saying that news organizations are independent of powerful people and organizations (20%) or are willing to admit their mistakes (21%) now also match all-time lows.

(Full report here).

I won't buy a local paper any more, I know they're a sell out. I've looked out for bias in every news source there is for a long time now, and the built in slant is obvious to a lot more people than just myself (see the poll results above). There's a lot of it out there, and much of it is far worse than mere bias, its complicity.

Today's "journalists" are cheerleaders for their pet causes, and they ignore anything that they feel may hurt their pet causes.

Flat out ignore it.

There is no investigative journalism any longer, it doesn't exist.

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 8:30:05 PM

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I agree, Sanity. Yeah.. lol.. mark this day!

But its true. They arent impartial anymore. And thats sad. Seems like we have to check and verify between 6 sources before we believe anything anymore... and then there is still that niggling of a doubt.

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 8:41:00 PM

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Interesting coincidence: FOX launched in 1986.

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 8:58:15 PM

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Interesting coincidence: FOX launched in 1986.

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Interesting coincidence: FOX launched in 1986.

Well, from now on I get my news from pajama.com and the Oregonean.

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 8:59:50 PM

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You could just get it from tazzy.com. im gonna start my own news.

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 9:09:49 PM

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I wish that it was the old days again. You could pick up a newspaper and actually read 'news'. There is a reason that FOX took off in their ratings, and now dominate. The papers screwed up.

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 9:11:35 PM

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I would start my own to, but I have to admit that 'tazzy.com' sounds better than 'servant.com'.

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 9:17:54 PM

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Man I miss Walter Cronkite

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 9:24:26 PM

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I don't miss him that much. He was another liberal democrat that no one had the stones to question.

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 10:57:09 PM

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It isn't just the political bias, Sanity. There is also just the plain old incompetence. They don't have a clue what they are writing about, and it shows. Anytime I see the media (print or broadcast) trying to cover a subject I know, they are getting something fundamentally wrong. I extrapolate from that, that they are getting fundamental stuff wrong on subjects I'm not so familiar with, and that I had better not rely on their version too much

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/14/2009 11:45:26 PM

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Hey, they aren't in the business of reporting news, they are in the business of selling advertising. They write/broadcast what gets the ratings/circulation...not all that different from the past really, remember Hearst and yellow journalism?

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/15/2009 5:44:19 AM

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Hey, they aren't in the business of reporting news, they are in the business of selling advertising. They write/broadcast what gets the ratings/circulation...not all that different from the past really, remember Hearst and yellow journalism?

The difference is that - in the past - papers and news services didn't really pretend to be "unbiased". Their opinions extended beyond the Op'Ed pages, and they made no bones about it.

Today, most of them like to pretend otherwise.

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RE: News Media Races Congress To The Bottom - 9/15/2009 9:17:14 AM

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All I can say is thank ____ for the internet. It gives me a broad range of sources to choose from. Hopefully I'm getting good information AND can tell the difference.

I've tried in the past 1 1/2 years to get any local reporter interested in the information I've dug up regarding the systemic fraud in the mortgage industry and what seems to be the absolute ignorance of local courts in re their understanding of the complexities involved in mortgage lending and securitization. Not a one of them has published anything, and that in spite of clear evidence of such, coverage in some of the national papers (NYT, WSJ, etc), cases adjudicated on identical issues in other jurisdictions that have consistently been decided in favor of borrowers, etc. I've done interviews with 2 papers totaling 8 - 10 hours. Initially they were very interested. Then nothing.

One local reporter for a regional paper in essence said "If you do the research for me maybe I'll write something." So much for investigative reporting and journalistic integrity.

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