News stations. Are there any

Nathan said:
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.
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They all have an agenda. wake up people!
 
I watch David Muir, CNN and others. Don't care for Fox. Watch the local news at night leading into Stephen Colbert's show. I listen to others and then make up my mind about what I think about a subject. I prefer checking out different news web sites to get others views. Am not loyal to any one person or site.
 
Don M. said:
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.
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I still remember the CBC here in Canada giving commercial free news. Not any more! They are just horrible with their stupid endless commercials. This is why I get my news from the Internet where I decide what I want to read.
 
I don't enjoy watching any news channel, but my husband does, he also likes the discovery channel and shows about living in the wilderness. So that explains why I am always in the Senior forums. Right now he is watching about the car crash Tiger Woods was just in so here I am again.
 
Nathan said:
Not so. The "everybody's guilty- they're all doing it" excuse for bad behavior of some is just another falsehood.

News is news...opinion disguised as news is never news.
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I'll say it again. They all have an agenda. there is not one news station (that I have found) that does not have an agenda.
Failing to report a story, asking softball questions to one side and grilling the other, failing to get opposing comments, reporting only one side of the story, reporting on stories that help one party and not the other, refusing to report a story because it helps "the other side." etc.
Opinion news is just opinion. I'm not even going there.
 
Don M. said:
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.
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I get mine commercial free on Hulu+. Since I'm up late anyway, I'll see the program before daylight. With commercials, like you said, fully 1/3 of the broadcast time is taken up by them. I don't have the patience for that.

@JimBob1952 From what I read about David, it's likely that you're right. I respect that he's not flaunting his lifestyle, no matter what it is. I love my David and kinda don't like it when he's not there on the weekends. :D I also have a lot of respect for the type of situations he's put himself in to report the news when he's in the field. He seems like a real earnest, caring person. @Pepper
 
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OneEyedDiva said:
I get mine commercial free on Hulu+. Since I'm up late anyway, I'll see the program before daylight. With commercials, like you said, fully 1/3 of the broadcast time is taken up by them. I don't have the patience for that.

@JimBob1952 From what I read about David, it's likely that you're right. I respect that he's not putting flaunting his lifestyle, no matter what it is. I love my David and kinda don't like it when he's not there on the weekend. :D I also have a lot of respect for the type of situations he's put himself in to report the news when he's in the field. He seems like a real earnest, caring person. @Pepper
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Record your news then fast forward through the commercials? Just a thought.
 
The problem with TV news is that people are lazy and will watch what they want to watch and what agrees with their line of thought.

I really don't watch TV news that much.

To get the real news and make your own opinion takes a little work.

I subscribe (pay) for a financial news outlet (on line). Yes, even they put a spin on things, BUT, they do not hide, misreport, omit information, tell only part of the story, etc. Because investors make decisions based on their information and if they omit something that may be vital information when the markets open, investors will leave their site in a heart beat.
Information on trade deals and how they effect a segment, tariffs on steal, food products, energy decisions make huge impacts on employment and world markets. Immigration policies, political appointments have huge impacts, especially energy, trade policy and economics.
Yes, even the impact of the pandemic on travel, consumer practices, technology, raw materials. I could go on and on.
Yeah, so I like to know what the Asian markets are doing at 3am my time and why the are reacting they way they are.
But at least I know what's going on and not just part of the story that fits someone's agenda.
 
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J.B Books said:
OK

read this.

Just quick grab off the net. I didn't want to waste too much time on this.

If anybody thinks that the news is not spoon feeding them what they want you to hear, they are part of the problem.

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart


Even "center' does not mean unbiased.
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Alright you seem determined to "prove" that all news sources are biased, correct? Then that would be your answer to the first part of this thread's title: "Fair news stations anymore? Like Walter Cronkite who just reported the news? "

How about your answer to the second part- "What stations do you feel are fair and not slanted?" It would follow that your answer would be "none", right?
If that's the sum of your position then it looks like we're done.
 
Nathan said:
Alright you seem determined to "prove" that all news sources are biased, correct? Then that would be your answer to the first part of this thread's title: "Fair news stations anymore? Like Walter Cronkite who just reported the news? "

How about your answer to the second part- "What stations do you feel are fair and not slanted?" It would follow that your answer would be "none", right?
If that's the sum of your position then it looks like we're done.
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Nathan,
Very perceptive of you!
My answer would be "none".
It's just sad that some people actually believe that what they watch is unbiased.
That, sir, is the point I am making, and you picked up on that.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I get mine commercial free on Hulu+. Since I'm up late anyway, I'll see the program before daylight. With commercials, like you said, fully 1/3 of the broadcast time is taken up by them. I don't have the patience for that.

@JimBob1952 From what I read about David, it's likely that you're right. I respect that he's not flaunting his lifestyle, no matter what it is. I love my David and kinda don't like it when he's not there on the weekends. :D I also have a lot of respect for the type of situations he's put himself in to report the news when he's in the field. He seems like a real earnest, caring person. @Pepper
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Could not agree more.
 
JonDouglas said:
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.
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Similar to that game telephone we played as kids where you whispered a message to one person who whispered it to another and by the end person, it became a whacked, overly dramatized version of what the actual message was.
 


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