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From Ted Koppel, and I agree with it.
We hear everyday from people complaining about the right wing or left wing media, but such is not really the case. The mediawhores' motives are not rooted in politics, but in profits, which ultimately affect what we see and hear on TV (That is, if we watch network news - I no longer do). As a result, both Liberals and Conservatives ultimately have a legitimate beef with network news.
But whose fault is it that people are no longer obtaining accurate reporting any more? I would say it is the fault of the people who are watching it. I see threads in this forum talking about "The left wing lie of the hour" and "The right wing lie of the day", but let me ask a serious question to those who are fed up. What have you yourself done to take an active role in opposing network news, other than complain? The first step (and the best step) you can take is to just turn it off.
Despite the role that networks are taking to dumb down viewers on both the right and the left, in the end, their fluff which passes for news is irrelevant to the intelligent viewer, and most of you here are intelligent. Americans can make the mediawhores irrelevant by just ignoring them. There is plenty of news elsewhere, and by that, I mean real news. In short, you dont need the mediawhores, but they need you badly. They are only taking a position of making Americans accept the pablum puke they disseminate because they believe that the average citizen does not have the will to demand change. So my question to you, if you are one of the complainers, is the following:
What are you going to do about it?
Based on this article.
We hear everyday from people complaining about the right wing or left wing media, but such is not really the case. The mediawhores' motives are not rooted in politics, but in profits, which ultimately affect what we see and hear on TV (That is, if we watch network news - I no longer do). As a result, both Liberals and Conservatives ultimately have a legitimate beef with network news.
But whose fault is it that people are no longer obtaining accurate reporting any more? I would say it is the fault of the people who are watching it. I see threads in this forum talking about "The left wing lie of the hour" and "The right wing lie of the day", but let me ask a serious question to those who are fed up. What have you yourself done to take an active role in opposing network news, other than complain? The first step (and the best step) you can take is to just turn it off.
Despite the role that networks are taking to dumb down viewers on both the right and the left, in the end, their fluff which passes for news is irrelevant to the intelligent viewer, and most of you here are intelligent. Americans can make the mediawhores irrelevant by just ignoring them. There is plenty of news elsewhere, and by that, I mean real news. In short, you dont need the mediawhores, but they need you badly. They are only taking a position of making Americans accept the pablum puke they disseminate because they believe that the average citizen does not have the will to demand change. So my question to you, if you are one of the complainers, is the following:
What are you going to do about it?
Based on this article.