Kathleen’s Place
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Fair news stations anymore? Like Walter Cronkite who just reported the news? What stations do you feel are fair and not slanted?
News stations. Are there any
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squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
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- Arkansas, and also Florida
ZERO.
No matter which side of the fence they sit, there will always be a slant toward they're own side and opinion. To be truly informed, one must take in as many news sites as possible and make your own mind up. Never, ever, become a blind sheep.
JMHO.
Pappy
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Any of us could do their job, as news people, as long as we can read off a script.
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OneEyedDiva
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The only news I watch is World News Tonight With David Muir on ABC. There is usually no long commentary and except for COVID and the insurrection events most stories are only given about a minute or two. I have a news app that reports news from several sources and that's what I look at on a daily basis.
JonDouglas
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Not only that but they breathe each others' exhaust. For example, media outlet A puts out a story that some anonymous source says some bigwig kills kittens. Then, outlet B reports on A's story and adds an anonymous source of its own who inflates the story some more suggesting the kittens come from a pet mill. Then, outlet C expands on B's story by wondering if bigwig runs an illegal pet mill, which is picked up by outlet C and reported as gospel . Just so you know, certain organizations and bureaucracies are very adept at misinformation and planting stories that float up far from reality. It's like the exercise you did in grad school in passing a message around the circle.
horseless carriage
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According to some, I shouldn't be allowed to vote. I haven't bothered with the news in over 50 years. Journalists have a knack of turning every event into a potential Armageddon. After JFK's assassination and the Aberfan disaster in the 1960's I started avoiding depressing news, from that point I became less and less interested. Not being a news junkie means that I don't follow political debate and that's why, according to some, I shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Kathleen’s Place
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I’m pretty much the same way. I look at BBC every morning to get an over view of the world news and that is about it anymore. Wish I had started avoiding news back when you did. I’m a slow learner
. I stopped watching last Fall. Between the elections and covid and riots and general mayhem, I was getting more and more depressed. Spinning my wheels when I couldn’t do a darn thing about any of it. So I just stopped and have been gloriously happy ever since
JimBob1952
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We have switched to David Muir as well. There is something about the pacing and structure that I like better. And David himself is very likeable.
Objectivity is pretty difficult to achieve. I look at the Real Clear Politics (RCP) news aggregation site sometimes. It alternates one "liberal" story with one "conservative" story. Theoretically the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I'm going through a massive reassessment of how I look at the world right now. Don't know where I will come out.
JimBob1952
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Journalistic slant goes way back. The New York Times reported sympathetically on Stalin and their Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for regurgitating Stalinist propaganda. Donald Graham, owner of the Washington Post, used to help JFK with his speeches, a violation of "ethics" if ever there was one. Even Cronkite was a devout liberal who let his politics get in the way sometimes.
https://www.newsweek.com/new-biography-cbs-newsman-walter-cronkite-dents-his-halo-64849
When I was young, Time magazine was very conservative and always reported on the world from a hardcore right-wing viewpoint.
Don M.
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About 1/3rd, or more, of the 1/2 hour news broadcast is commercials....both local and national news networks. One can find more news on the Internet, in 5 minutes, than these stations broadcast in 30 minutes. There are dozens of important events taking place, daily, all over the nation, that most people never hear about, as a result of the time wasted on these endless ads.
If I were filthy rich, I would buy a TV network and stipulate that they broadcast the daily news, commercial free.
If I were filthy rich, I would buy a TV network and stipulate that they broadcast the daily news, commercial free.
I also watch David Muir, ABC, nightly news. Though he's intense, he's not over dramatic and comes across as knowledgeable, definitely not slanted. I like his style. I also think any one of the prime time nightly news gives direct reporting. Maybe I like David best because he's hot.
fuzzybuddy
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I hate the biased commentaries you find on news channels. It bleeds into every news story. Take the weather in Texas. Some news sources claimed the culprits were the "liberal" green energy sources. like solar and wind. I guess if you look closely enough, solar powered electrons are blue , not like those dependable red ones. But there was a comment about news media that got to me. It was not what a biased news source said, but what a biased population wanted to hear that was the driving force. And when you think about it, Fox, or MSNBC would not be doing partisan slanted reporting, and commenting, if there wasn't a partisan audience eating up every word. The problem is trying to identify which partisan group a news source belongs to. And if you don't agree with what is being said, well it's obviously tainted propaganda from the other side.
Irwin
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The network world news programs only have maybe 20 minutes if that after you allow for all the commercials, so all you get are little tidbits of information. You never seem to get the why -- just the who, what, and where, and when. You get a bit more depth with the PBS NewsHour, but the only way to get the full story is to read it in articles written by real journalists.
Some people don't seem to know the difference between opinion and fact, though, so there's that problem.
Some people don't seem to know the difference between opinion and fact, though, so there's that problem.
Yes, I look at a number of papers everyday and also watch ABC news and the local news.
JonDouglas
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Indeed. The New York Times, along with CBS, has been particularly odorous over the years by promoting agitprop as news. CBS had two particular scoundrels in Walter Cronkite and Dan 'fake but accurate" Rather. At least CBS fired Rather and his news producer Mary Mapes when they got caught.
fmdog44
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Today I was watching a news broadcast about the situation in Texas. On the screen behind the broadcaster were videos of what looked like a northern state blizzard with a couple feet of snow and people shoveling it! We probably got an inch where I live.
JimBob1952
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Yes, but where else would I learn about the latest developments in adult incontinence products, diabetes medications, psoriasis treatments, arthritis cures and so many other scientific breakthroughs?
Irwin
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I just took a look at it. It looks like a pretty good source for news. They don't have opinion pieces, so it's just news stories, which is a good thing if you just want to get informed and not merely have your worldview reinforced.
JimBob1952
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Er, I think he might be playing for the other team. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Nathan
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The 3 broadcast TV network news- CBS, NBC,ABC plus AP and Reuters, also BBC.
CNN has been characterized by the Right as being biased, I don't know personally.
Fox is decidedly slanted and borderline fictional. Newsmax and Infowars are pretty much off the hook anarchy advocates.