The news gives us 1% the truth..90% lies...

Because most everything has become offensive, I believe broadcasters are measuring their every word before speaking and unable to voice their true opinions.

So in this regard...yes...I think we are getting fake/ filtered news.
 

I'd give the news a little more than 1% truth and not too many straight up lies. What I see is a lot of lying by omission and slanting to an agenda.

I don't watch TV news much anymore, I just get the headlines online.

If something really big is going on I turn on the TV and watch a little bit of coverage from CNN, a little bit of coverage from FOX and then go to YouTube and watch any videos the public might have come up with.
 
I believe it is the sound bite nature of the news that allows it to be later judged as fake. Mostā€¦if not all actual news is factual. But you do not get the whole story. Just a sound bite. By itā€™s very nature taken often out of context. And then there are the celebrity style newscasters who live to sensationalize somethingā€¦anything. Makes it a bit hard to sort it all out.
 
Jace said:
The news gives us 1% the truth..90% lies...

And the rest...somewhere in-between.

What say you?
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I say that is a very lightweight statement. How would anyone determine that across all sources there is only 1% of truth? Wouldn't that be affected by the bias of the source delivering that figure?

There are many, many sources of news.

Anyone who wants to be informed needs to spend some time reading and/or hearing various sources of news. Simply watching a favorite biased newscast isn't enough. There is more news available to people today than ever before in history but it does take a bit of time and effort on the part of the consumer. Listen to several different reports of a story and make up your own mind from there.
 
It depends where you get your news. If all your news comes from a 24 hour biased opinion network, well, your opinions will be as biased. It best to understand that all news outlets are for profit, and you have to determine which you deem as trustworthy.
 
perhaps the % in statement are off but in general as others have said ...... lying by omission is flagrant and one sided stories IMO are not news but opinion.
i was just discussing with spouse about how so many " journalists " just play the game with no integrity........
Just read what is on teleprompter and forget reason. If on a broadcast that leans one way they spout that company line .. many have switched teams and now lean the other way...?

The truth always lie in between and as long as the public just nods and listens they do not care when REAL questions arise from those who dug deeper or just see flaws and omissions in story they panic.
 
Beezer said:
Because most everything has become offensive, I believe broadcasters are measuring their every word before speaking and unable to voice their true opinions.
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That may be where the real problem is coming in. Newscasters of past days *reported the news* without sticking their "own true opinions" in there. That makes it spun propaganda and not true news. It's like "tell me what happened, I don't care at ALL what your spin on it is!"
 
I believe that ten percent of the news is the truth in the world and realty that I live in, twenty percent of the news is fake news, thirty percent of the news is lies, thirty percent of the news is totally useless information and ten percent of the news is a total illusion and how you perceive it reflect on your mental stability or instability.
 
Della said:
I'd give the news a little more than 1% truth and not too many straight up lies. What I see is a lot of lying by omission and slanting to an agenda.

I don't watch TV news much anymore, I just get the headlines online.

If something really big is going on I turn on the TV and watch a little bit of coverage from CNN, a little bit of coverage from FOX and then go to YouTube and watch any videos the public might have come up with.
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Exactly my thoughts too
 
Jeni said:
perhaps the % in statement are off but in general as others have said ...... lying by omission is flagrant and one sided stories IMO are not news but opinion.
i was just discussing with spouse about how so many " journalists " just play the game with no integrity........
Just read what is on teleprompter and forget reason. If on a broadcast that leans one way they spout that company line .. many have switched teams and now lean the other way...?

The truth always lie in between and as long as the public just nods and listens they do not care when REAL questions arise from those who dug deeper or just see flaws and omissions in story they panic.
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Couldn't agree more Jeni..
 
I won't watch CNN or Fox any more. If I watch news on TV it will be a network channel, and even then it is obviously slanted. I usually look at the headlines online and wish we still had ethics in our news as well as our government.
 
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