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They've been going down hill since this man retired in 1981. At about that time funding for broadcast journalism was being cut around the U.S. and it never got back to its post-WWII golden age.
That's Walter Cronkite, former CBS anchorman, once known as "the most trusted man in America."Who is he?
Not much. Not that I assume the media is always dishonest, but rather that journalists are, after all, human and therefore subject to the normal human frailties. Also, journalists generally haven't received much education about anything but journalism. Especially anything to do with science or engineering, about which most of them are dumber than a box of wet hair.How much do you trust the media to tell you the truth?
But we are more interested in what you have to day. After all, you started the thread.I am more I interested in your opinion than my own.
Is the internet now just a way to reinforce our own biases.
There is a name for governments that control what the press is allowed to print. It is called dictatorship. Is this really what you want? You can move to North Korea if so.They hide under "Freedom of the press". I don't understand why the FCC ( Federal Communications Commission) or the Supreme Court doesn't place rules on them. We have "Freedom of Speech" but you aren't allowed to slander others under it.
How does one educate the voters in South Carolina?Media has always been biased and the only guard against it is education.
We all can't dive into this too deep because of the "No Politics" rule.BobTPH said:There is a name for governments that control what the press is allowed to print. It is called dictatorship. Is this really what you want? You can move to North Korea if so.
Hola strantorThe mainstream media, on all sides, not just one or the other, is untrustworthy. They have served their purpose in the past but we don't need them anymore. They are doing more harm than good. We are the media now. We have the resources to propagate our own news. And We The Media have the resources (and responsibility) to fact check it before propagating it, and really should have the good sense to fact check what we let take up residence in our minds even if we have no intention of sharing it.
Show me an example from the NY Times, Washington Post, or Wall Street Journal where they have done this. In my experience, it is not the journalists who are making thongs up, it is the people on all sides who scream “fake news” about everything, fact or opinion, that they don’t like.When presenting breaking news or an opinion piece they must show you the evidence that backs what they say..... Not just spit something out and call it the truth because it's what they want you to believe.
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