Where do you get your news?
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Oh, I have long known he and several others would claim Trump is going to do all sorts of things. But there are open videos all over the internet that prove this crude, silly jerking is just Trump's way of saying some people have no idea what they are doing.
Frankly, I find it kind of bordering on a mental disorder to claim Trump would mock a disability, especially since it is also so well documented for years and years how magnanimous he has been in his charity contributions to handicapped people.
Frankly, I find it kind of bordering on a mental disorder to claim Trump would mock a disability, especially since it is also so well documented for years and years how magnanimous he has been in his charity contributions to handicapped people.
For about 40% of the news, I have found that when I see a story on Fox, as I flip channels to CNN or one of the others, very often I do not get to see, sometimes, half of the more complete video I just watched on FOX. That says some pretty serious things to me..... they had the same opportunity to show the whole truth (as far as a particular video might show) as FOX had, but they often edit out, or cut short, anything that will not uphold, or will debunk, their prejudiced view.
yes i think that's very true.
FOX for example in the past justified their obvious bias by saying they needed to "balance" media outlets that had obvious bias towards the DNC. that justification, however, is out the window when you're not reading something like Huffpost or Mother Earth News alongside of the pundits there. in that case you're just as unbalanced, but in the other direction.
i try to read through a number of the major sites from other countries, especially about international events, and it's also sometimes pretty illuminating to see how people in different parts of Europe, Arabia, Australia etc. react to events in America -- people who largely haven't been propagandized by the party-aligned news outlets we have here ((though they may be propagandized similarly in their own lands)). if there's a headline or topic i'm interested in i'll read about it on several sites looking for more data and different points of view. i think that getting the opinion and slant of sources that represent multiple outlooks is a key to avoiding being propagandized -- a word i've repeated several times now, because i truly feel it's a very real, integral and growing part of our media, that we need to be aware of and take steps not to be 'taken in by.' we shouldn't find ourselves on one side of the fence or the other completely dismissing one news source just because "oh they're liberal" or "oh they're ultra conservative" -- with that kind of attitude we're reading opinion, not news.
FOX for example in the past justified their obvious bias by saying they needed to "balance" media outlets that had obvious bias towards the DNC. that justification, however, is out the window when you're not reading something like Huffpost or Mother Earth News alongside of the pundits there. in that case you're just as unbalanced, but in the other direction.
i try to read through a number of the major sites from other countries, especially about international events, and it's also sometimes pretty illuminating to see how people in different parts of Europe, Arabia, Australia etc. react to events in America -- people who largely haven't been propagandized by the party-aligned news outlets we have here ((though they may be propagandized similarly in their own lands)). if there's a headline or topic i'm interested in i'll read about it on several sites looking for more data and different points of view. i think that getting the opinion and slant of sources that represent multiple outlooks is a key to avoiding being propagandized -- a word i've repeated several times now, because i truly feel it's a very real, integral and growing part of our media, that we need to be aware of and take steps not to be 'taken in by.' we shouldn't find ourselves on one side of the fence or the other completely dismissing one news source just because "oh they're liberal" or "oh they're ultra conservative" -- with that kind of attitude we're reading opinion, not news.
i've seen the same thing on FOX pretty often though -- selectively editing quotes or footage and leaving important facts out. they are not any more trustworthy than other major media outlets in general IMO, especially among their pundits, opinion pieces and round-table discussions as opposed to the regular headline news.
but in more general terms this is something i like very much about NPR, who being free from advertisers and monetization, can spend a whole lot more time on a story than places like FOX, CNN or MSNBC. not catering to a short attention-span audience and not having to break every 2 minutes to sell something, and not trying to keep up revenue driven by viewership allows them to do much more in-depth reporting. there may well be some political bias involved at NPR too, but in this respect they often have a higher quality of reporting.
it will be a shame to see our new administration & congress destroy public broadcasting.
