Is our news media reliable?

[OreO]

I already know its not great....

See this is a class assignment for me. I have to read this little chapter on the News media. In the chapter they talk about the bias some networks have and what not. My objective is to teach the class on this subject...and a big way i am going to get my info is by asking people...taking surveys...so i came here because i know that tons of people in this forum have specific views on this subject so its perfect...


Let me know how you feel on the News media in AMERICA(not any other country please)


Thank you very much:thumbsup:

[Psycho4Bud]

I already know its not great....

See this is a class assignment for me. I have to read this little chapter on the News media. In the chapter they talk about the bias some networks have and what not. My objective is to teach the class on this subject...and a big way i am going to get my info is by asking people...taking surveys...so i came here because i know that tons of people in this forum have specific views on this subject so its perfect...


Let me know how you feel on the News media in AMERICA(not any other country please)


Thank you very much:thumbsup:

If the owner, or CEO of a news group is Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Athiest, Catholic, Moslum, whatever...your going to have that slant or bias. Best thing to do is look at em' all and come to your own conclusions. That's the thing about this country. News may be slanted but we do have a wide variety of slants to choose from.:thumbsup:

[eg420ne]

Contain No News, Cartoon News Network, Fascist Oppressed Xenophobe News

Sorry dude I have no favorable thing to say about americas media-Its pure shit they lie 24/7 the only news worth watching is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.....Im sure sum here with a voice of reason :rolleyes: can give you what u want to hear

[Psycho4Bud]

Im sure sum here with a voice of reason :rolleyes: can give you what u want to hear


LMAO!!! :thumbsup:

[Fengzi]

Ok, we've all gone over this before but here it is again:

No, our news media is not reliable. The bottom line is that the news media is a business and a business exists to make money. The media mainly accomplishes this by selling advertising space. The problem is that the truth is boring and boring does not sell. So, the media has to make the news more exiting and sensationalistic.

Now don't get me wrong, the media does not come out with outright lies. They just take the truth and distort it. The will leave out large portions of the story and carefully choose their words in order to guide our opinions of the subject one way or another. Always with the ultimate goal of getting the public worked up so we will come back for more.

Of course this doesn't even take into account the fact that most news sources will have their own political leanings one way or the other. But even then the end goal is just to make money. By having a consistant political viewpoint they can guarantee a continued base of readers/viewers who will keep coming back for more.

Sadly the only way to really know the truth is to experience it yourself. Otherwise, research it from several different angles/viewpoints and put the parts together to form your own opinion.

[Psycho4Bud]

Sadly the only way to really know the truth is to experience it yourself. Otherwise, research it from several different angles/viewpoints and put the parts together to form your own opinion.

Yet another "voice of reason"!!:thumbsup:

[eg420ne]

LMAO!!! :thumbsup:Im glad you like that.....I elect Fengzi to be the new voice of reason

[Psycho4Bud]

Im glad you like that.....I elect Fengzi to be the new voice of reason

To late dude...I run a Dictatorship!! I have already compiled 99.9% of the vote!:thumbsup:

[eg420ne]

To late dude...I run a Dictatorship!! I have already compiled 99.9% of the vote!:thumbsup:Awwww man, can I have a recount of them chads.........

[OreO]

Sorry dude I have no favorable thing to say about americas media-Its pure shit they lie 24/7 the only news worth watching is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.....Im sure sum here with a voice of reason :rolleyes: can give you what u want to hear


No there isnt anything i wanna hear...i feel like our media sucks too, im not trying to prove that our media is the best...thats why im checking out what everyone thinks and has to offer


and everything you guys have said is exactley what im looking for so thanks for your responses.

[Psycho4Bud]

Awwww man, can I have a recount of them chads.........

Why sure you can...Al-Salami will escourt you to torture room where records are kept.:thumbsup:

[Psycho4Bud]

and everything you guys have said is exactley what im looking for so thanks for your responses.

No problem...from your one and only Voice of Reason! LOL:dance:

[Fengzi]

Im glad you like that.....I elect Fengzi to be the new voice of reason
Well thank you eg. Now, I think I need you to come and talk to my wife :p

[eg420ne]

Why sure you can...Al-Salami will escourt you to torture room where records are kept.:thumbsup:Just what i wanna to hear...LoL

[Fengzi]

To late dude...I run a Dictatorship!! I have already compiled 99.9% of the vote!:thumbsup:
Careful Psycho, you know what our current administration does to dictators. I just hope you don't have any oil in your backyard ;)

[eg420ne]

No there isnt anything i wanna hear...i feel like our media sucks too, im not trying to prove that our media is the best...thats why im checking out what everyone thinks and has to offer


and everything you guys have said is exactley what im looking for so thanks for your responses.
You welcome,,,

[eg420ne]

Careful Psycho, you know what our current administration does to dictators. I just hope you don't have any oil in your backyard ;)
Better hide all your WMDs psycho

[Psycho4Bud]

Careful Psycho, you know what our current administration does to dictators. I just hope you don't have any oil in your backyard ;)

This is either some good shit or you dudes are just fuckin' crackin' me up today!! Good one bro!!:thumbsup:

[Psycho4Bud]

Better hide all your WMDs psycho

Prints are buried in my garden and I shipped the WMD's to a neighbor! LOL:thumbsup:

[beachguy in thongs]

Well, to get back to the original point, there are a few stories that are hidden from the media, I assume, but the whole point in selling advertising space is retaining viewers by getting more news and they know that viewers are looking for unbiased news.

Things will get out one way or another. I can guarantee that those P.D.'s, in the news recently, wanted to keep those things out of the media. America has a black market when it comes to news.

As far as the truth, you can't accept a newsanchor's words.

Except Keith Olbermann.

[Euphoric]

fuck no it's not reliable

[Fengzi]

I assume, but the whole point in selling advertising space is retaining viewers by getting more news and they know that viewers are looking for unbiased news.
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I disagree, people just think they want unbiased news. What they actually want is news that goes along with all the brainwashing they've already received. If they can be tricked into believing it's unbiased, all the better.

[Myth1184]

Fox news Reliable...MSNBC just picks up the scraps left over by CNN/FOx News...CNN is severly Bias to the left, usually wont even allow a Conservative on their show unless he rides the line of Conservative/Liberal. Liberals usually wont show up on Fox news cause they dont want their following to learn the truth

[death of sXe]

CNN is severly Bias to the left

Wrong, as usual Myth. You're good...statisticly speaking you should of said something right by now! :eek:

[eg420ne]

Foxnews reliable!?!---- now thats funny........................

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7798.htm

[Psycho4Bud]

Foxnews reliable!?!---- now thats funny........................

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7798.htm


LMAO!!! Was wondering how long to get a rise out of ya!!

Have a good one!!:thumbsup:

[bonsaiguy]

Most if not all news outlets seem to be geared towards making money and selling advertising. Very often, I have noticed that the most "fair and balanced" news, not "news stories" but actual news comes from NPR. Remember I said the actual news not their various editorials and stories and human/animal intersts pieces. They seem to give news from the nation and worldwide that is just plain news, no embellishments, no "factors" or "spin zones" or any of that crap and for the most part, they do give both sides of the fence on most issues. Not to say that public radio does not lean to the left most of the time with greenpeace, global warming etc, but they almost always give you the opposing viewpoint on most issues.

Gone are the days of actual journalists and reporters (Cronkite, Murrow, etc) doing the news as opposed to the barbie and ken types they have now that just look pretty and read copy written by some slave labor interns who write whatever they are told to write. You really do have to listent to a variety of sources, whatever their bias, and attempt to piece together the truth on your own.

[eg420ne]

LoL----Sometimes I wonder if Myth just a "mad liberal" pretending to be a right-wing nut......

[Shelbay]

I have posted before that I read several different State Newspapers and the SAME story is always told differently but similar..anyway I just read them all..in between the lines and form my opinion. I do have to say though I believe there are just happenings in Washington that ARE protecting us and some things should not be printed to afford us our protection..just my viewpoint. Some things we don't need to know.

[Psycho4Bud]

I do have to say though I believe there are just happenings in Washington that ARE protecting us and some things should not be printed to afford us our protection..just my viewpoint. Some things we don't need to know.

I couldn't agree more!!!:thumbsup:

[halo]

Yah the news media isnt reliable. They only care about the money and the always have more people for current political policies than against.

some guy said that"the media needs to be the governments biggest critic." the guy said it way back when in the early years of our country.

[intangible child]

Nope!:twocents:
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."
~ General Douglas Macarthur, 1957

[beachguy in thongs]

Thanks. I wrote my local newschannel last night to tell them we need more unbiased news in the World.