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If that is true, then you are guilt of the same problem Joe. Unless of course, you really do believe in that naive head of yours that David Brock is an impartial man or that somehow, a media center set up by a man of the left and funded solely by left wing sources, would not come from a leftist viewpoint...would not be capable of lies and distortions? Of leftist propaganda?
I don't have that problem. I examine news from several sources. Some are conservative, some liberal, others....moderate. Some are views inside the nation, and others, outside. Its really to bad we no longer have strict journalistic rules and principles in the nation. That twenty years ago, as many as fifty or so companies owned the varies news outlets and those had to compete with each other for viewership. That forced them to be as non political and partisan as possible. Some did push an agenda, but not the majority. Fast forward to 2014, and there are just six companies that out news outlets. With a vast reduction in competition, the remaining companies are not as stressed to report accurate information. An as anyone that has studied economics and business, less competition is a bad thing for the consumer. But the consumer here is not getting a product or service, but information. And that information is being more and more assigned along political and ideological lines.
That there are Americans that hate 'liberal media', yet can not define the word 'liberal' is pretty sad. Likewise, conservative media has a fair number of individuals that can not define 'conservative'. When asked 'what are qualities in journalism'? How do we answer the question? 'Freedom from censorship' would be one answer. That we have access to this tool called 'The Internet'. The problem is that this tool doesn't come with a warning not to take everything found on it seriously or truthfully. Credibility becomes a key factor in information reported. That John Stewarts 'Daily Show' ranks up there with 'NPR' for accurate news information is in a way....a sad....commentary on our society.
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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
Face it, Joe...for the most part almost all political news...and a great deal of most other news...carries the political taint of the people reporting it. It doesn't much matter whether it's CBS, FOX, ABC, MSNBC, TIME, NATIONAL REVIEW ORRRR...Media Matters.
That is a pretty bleak and depressing way to look at the 1st amendment. You see politics as a bad thing. If that is true, why are you on this thread? You should be tainted up one arm and down the other by now! And there lies the real truth of the matter. You and I, are not news outlets. CBS, FOX News, ABC, MSNBC, TIME, The National Review....are....news outlets. Media Matters does not report news. It explains how one news organization reported the news. Most often showing the viewer what FOX News aired/printed/posted. And then explaining the facts the news organization had correct, and what it didn't have correct. Both sections give quite an understanding of what FOX News is, as a media and news outlet. What is given shows the news outlet to be corrupted to the core! That much of its information contains falsehoods and incorrect information. Worst of all, they....know....the information and viewpoints they are posting are false and misleading. That they push an agenda is well understood by most informed people.
Most people in this nation do not have the ability to weigh the information on the 'fact'/'fiction' scale. That they are accepting what they think is accurate news from FOX News, turns out to be a bundle of falsehoods. Then when people try to correct them later with the actual information, they get mad/angry and call them 'liberal'.
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