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Some News Leaves People Knowing Less
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I don't need a university study to tell me that! Too bad the Faux News audience won't believe it...
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Damn reality with its liberal bias!
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I prefer to get my real "news" from talk radio and the written press. I tend to find any televised news programs to be overwhelmingly thick in visual stimuli that is intended to manipulate and distract the viewer. Televised News productions have become difficult to watch due to all the bells and whistles. It's funny that a program like The Daily Show has become less dressed up than the major network and cable news programs.
I really do enjoy talk radio programs, mostly from indy stations (less budget a station has I feel you get more of the raw news). I tend to find when you have call in audience you get a better view of the issues from all sides and all walks of life. It is not without it's bias also depending on the host and the producers of the programs but it much more reliable and informative than anything I have been able to find on Television the last umpteen years.
I really do enjoy talk radio programs, mostly from indy stations (less budget a station has I feel you get more of the raw news). I tend to find when you have call in audience you get a better view of the issues from all sides and all walks of life. It is not without it's bias also depending on the host and the producers of the programs but it much more reliable and informative than anything I have been able to find on Television the last umpteen years.
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Totally agree TCD. I listen to a lot of less mainstream news. Radio has some good stuff.
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I concur, but even something like NPR blurs the editorial with the news more often than I care. Personally I try to hit as many sources as I can on any matter I care about. Gives a sense the various perspectives since all of the mainstream media is bias, just depends on which point of view most prefer.
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I agree and will take it a step further to state that one news source is not a news organization in some people's view is just pure ignorance and borders on the line of stupidity. They all have a slant and because you do not agree with one news organization's perspective does not mean they are not a news organization.
A true perspective is achieved is by reading/ watching all sides.
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The people who do that just don't realize that the same would hold true to organizations like CNN and MSNBC. Which overall is probably closer to the truth than saying they all are legit news organizations.
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Do what? Reading\watching all sides? Doing so, as I mentioned, is a full realization that news organizations are biased.
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And Time magazine is owned by who and what else do they own?
http://www.cjr.org/resources/?c=timewarner
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DEY TUK UR JERRRRRRRRRRRRRRBS
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All media conglomerates are equally culpable of pulling the wool over the people. I thought that picture was just depressing on how certain narratives are being ignored. Can't have the Occupy movement getting any ideas from across the pond, can we? Instead lets make a cover story how it's actually good to be anxious in these uncertain times.
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By Tim Graham, Newsbusters
In the same issue of Broadcasting & Cable magazine in which Al Gore described the public's deep yearning for Current TV, former ABC anchor (and current NBC Rock Center special correspondent ) Ted Koppel issued one of his lectures on how the elite media has lost its way amidst all the rabble and their incessant partisan blogging and partisan cable news.
Koppel concluded in a very transparently insincere fashion that when America is ruined and the public begs the media to tell them why the media didn't save them from themselves and their corrupt partisanship, Koppel will be oh so sad to tell them that they got what they deserved by overturning King Media: democratized journalism is the end of America.
Only when the combined impact of too many unemployed, too many foreclosures, too much debt, exacerbated by two undeclared and unfunded wars; only when the human and social costs of a crumbling education system and flawed healthcare system leave us wondering where and why we lost our footing as a nation, will we come to realize that why is communicated to us is vastly more important than the medium by which it is conveyed.
Some are already posing the question but one day, most Americans will point at us in the news media and say, ‘Why didn’t you tell us? Why did you encourage all that partisan bile and venom? Why did you feed us all that trivial crap, when so many terrible things were converging?’ And no one will be happy with the answer. Least of all those of us who offer it. “What we gave you,” we will say, “is what you wanted.”
In the same issue of Broadcasting & Cable magazine in which Al Gore described the public's deep yearning for Current TV, former ABC anchor (and current NBC Rock Center special correspondent ) Ted Koppel issued one of his lectures on how the elite media has lost its way amidst all the rabble and their incessant partisan blogging and partisan cable news.
Koppel concluded in a very transparently insincere fashion that when America is ruined and the public begs the media to tell them why the media didn't save them from themselves and their corrupt partisanship, Koppel will be oh so sad to tell them that they got what they deserved by overturning King Media: democratized journalism is the end of America.
Only when the combined impact of too many unemployed, too many foreclosures, too much debt, exacerbated by two undeclared and unfunded wars; only when the human and social costs of a crumbling education system and flawed healthcare system leave us wondering where and why we lost our footing as a nation, will we come to realize that why is communicated to us is vastly more important than the medium by which it is conveyed.
Some are already posing the question but one day, most Americans will point at us in the news media and say, ‘Why didn’t you tell us? Why did you encourage all that partisan bile and venom? Why did you feed us all that trivial crap, when so many terrible things were converging?’ And no one will be happy with the answer. Least of all those of us who offer it. “What we gave you,” we will say, “is what you wanted.”
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The people who take sides or that say one is better than the other. There is no side to take.
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Please, the flashieness of Fox news and MSNBC's breaking stories should make them as lost and forgotten as Bronson Pinchot's acting career. I swear; most TV news feeds are less credible than The Onion.
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And the worrying thing is that some of the satire by the Onion seems plausible.
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One of the best and brightest, maybe even THE best, political commentators is on Fox. His name is Charles Krauthammer.
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One thing to be clear about is that Time has always focused their covers to the region. Also, the world articles are the same among the issues, just the local stuff changes. So while the strife in Egypt was the cover for the other regions, it was still a main article in US edition. Though it is still a bit odd how different the focus was..