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

Naturally said:
I'd say regardless of which side of the isle, 100% biased
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And that's so sad. Back when Walter was reporting, we didn't see when he was disgusted at something because he was a trained journalist and they were taught how to do that. Now having said that, am I remembering that he cried when announcing Kennedy's assassination? Something like that would have endeared him to people even more. But I do wonder how he would have handled some of today's horrid and downright evil news stories? đź“°
 

Naturally said:
I grew up with Huntley-Brinkley. Usually watched in black and white, over supper.
I always thought they were pretty good but now I wonder how I might have viewed them had I been someone other than a child.
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I too wonder if i trusted more as a young person and perhaps the "news " was not as unbiased as i thought it was..... many a news person have been caught exaggerating or pushing something and ruined their career and legacy ... i have heard some had strong opinions but tried very hard to not let it show..... wish some now would adopt that strategy.
 

Naturally said:
I grew up with Huntley-Brinkley. Usually watched in black and white, over supper.
I always thought they were pretty good but now I wonder how I might have viewed them had I been someone other than a child.
... we couldn't pick up CBS on our antenna.
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That's what was always on at my house, too. After supper, that's just what a family did.
This conversation is making me seriously wonder how these real news people would have
handled the kind of news we face today.
 
Jeni said:
i have heard some had strong opinions but tried very hard to not let it show..... wish some now would adopt that strategy.
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Yes... they also wouldn't have gotten to pick and choose which news they put up front
and which got hidden in a little blurb like the mainstreams do now. News was news and
the networks reported it whether they liked it or not.
 
Jace said:
@Gaer .skeptical...weigh all 'facts'...till I make up my mind
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Jace, that's the best approach in my opinion. That's why I like to read several different reports on an important story and then make up my mind.

I no longer think that Cronkite was unbiased. I have seen some of his old news reports and can see a bias in them. We watched Cronkite in a time when reporters and news services were respected and trusted and we never questioned Uncle Walter. No more. I question everything. I don't think news was ever unbiased. The bias just wasn't as blatant as it is now and we were conditioned to trust.
 
My sister's husband was a newspaper editor before he retired.
Cathy showed me some of the emails they received in response to some of Jesse's reporting and editorials.
When bowed up, people can get down right scary if their opinions differ. Families worry for their safety.

My brother's son has been in the newspaper business in one way or another for several decades now.
Last time I spoke with Barry, he simply said, "Journalists aren't very popular these days."
 
Naturally said:
My sister's husband was a newspaper editor before he retired.
Cathy showed me some of the emails they received in response to some of Jesse's reporting and editorials.
When bowed up, people can get down right scary if their opinions differ. Families worry for their safety.

My brother's son has been in the newspaper business in one way or another for several decades now.
Last time I spoke with Barry, he simply said, "Journalists aren't very popular these days."
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i had a strong disagreement with a lawyer i have working on something i blurted out that "lawyers are as bad as journalists " ......

he was MAD and said "take that back no way this profession is as bad as that " .......lol

we both calmed down and agreed the death of real journalism was a step up for lawyers.
 
My view is that all the press regardless of type are attempting FIRST and FOREMOST to make money because without that they don't have jobs. Hence, what they publish is slanted to sell papers or get viewers or what have you. Nice. down the middle news does not sell anything. It has to be a big story rather than down the middle. Then, each news source has its bias be it CNN or Fox News or anyone else and that slants how they report or don't report. In the end I agree with Gaer.....be skeptical and weigh all the information.....
 
The world is shrinking and with the invention of tools like iphone which almost everyone carries (even in poor countries), it is difficult to fake real world happenings.
So IMO that ratio is askew.

What the reader or listener must be aware of, is the propaganda and misquotes by ignorant reporters. Be very canny where you get your news.
As a British reader, I would never trust rags like the Daily Mirror, the Sun or Daily Mail.
Only the lazy and those that thirst for unnecessary drama read the rubbish these papers print.
 
I usually watch the ABC evening news, and the local news at suppertime. They both do a good job of reporting the daily events, IMO. However, if a person spends hours watching the cable news networks...CNN/Fox/NewsMax/etc., I can agree that those sources are filled with "bias".
 
It really...makes 'you' wonder🤔.. EXACTLY what you're suppose to believe in/with the news.
 

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