Why is the press allowed to paraphrase and spin things the direction they want with no recourse when they spin it in a way that goes against the facts? Why do we read news that is proven to have a spin and not just have the facts given to us? Are we that incapable for coming up with our own opinions that we need the news to give us our opinion?
If you read the facts on a situation, you should be able to figure out how it relates to you, and where you want to go from there with it. You shouldn't need some journalist (and I use that term very loosely with today's media) telling you how YOU should feel about something. You shouldn't need the media to tell you what you believe and how to think. You are your own mind, your own beliefs, and your own ability to reason, right? So why do we allow just obvious corruption in our media?
Watch news reports on the same topic, covered by Fox News, CNN, ABC World News, CBS Nightly News, NBC Nightly News, BBC News, Vice News, The Daily Show, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Every single one will take the same story, with the exact same facts, and give you a completely different look at it. They will all put their own spin on it and how it SHOULD effect you. They tell you which of the facts should actually matter to you, which of the opinions you should care about, and how you should react to what they are telling you. They want to make sure that by the time they are done talking to you, you are thinking exactly what they want you to think with no deviation. They are literally brainwashing you into following their way of looking at things to help keep you controlled and working for them.
Now yes, there are some that give you more of the facts than others and will even tell you to do the research and figure it out for yourself. Last Week Tonight is big on that and I like that about them. Makes me think of Levar Burton in Reading Rainbow, "but don't just take my word for it." I think more News Media Outlets need to do that. They need to encourage their viewers to figure things out for themselves. They need to give more facts and much less opinion. They need to stop having presenters who don't actually give any news, but just spout rhetoric the entire time. They also need to stop giving air time to people like Alex Jones who prey off the fear and delusions of vulnerable people and convince them that there are things happening that could not possibly be happening, you know like child sex farms on Mars run by NASA.
The news has lost all of its integrity and people like the President and his administration are making it even harder for any honest journalists to be taken seriously. When they promote News Media Outlets that are CONSISTENTLY proven wrong time after time, and then call any media that goes against them "Fake News", then they themselves are creating a bias and making it even harder for real honest journalism to come back. The things that count as hard hitting journalism today, were nothing but fluff pieces 40 years ago. Once TV and internet took over as everyone's primary source of news gathering, and News Papers and Magazines got tossed to the wayside, so did the hard working journalists of yesteryear.
Now again, I agree that there are still great journalists and News Media Outlets out there, but the percentage of good to bad is almost to the point of finding a tasty Big Mac in the McDonald's Dumpster at midnight, sure it's there, and it's edible, but really?
It is time for the world to demand news made of facts and not opinion. It is time for the world to demand truth and integrity from our news sources, and boycott those who don't provide that. It is time to get rid of spin, or at least make sure your audience knows when the facts in the article end and when the opinion begins. Regardless of your beliefs, regardless of your personal opinions, our news should come to us as factual and un-opinionated as possible.
If you read the facts on a situation, you should be able to figure out how it relates to you, and where you want to go from there with it. You shouldn't need some journalist (and I use that term very loosely with today's media) telling you how YOU should feel about something. You shouldn't need the media to tell you what you believe and how to think. You are your own mind, your own beliefs, and your own ability to reason, right? So why do we allow just obvious corruption in our media?
Watch news reports on the same topic, covered by Fox News, CNN, ABC World News, CBS Nightly News, NBC Nightly News, BBC News, Vice News, The Daily Show, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Every single one will take the same story, with the exact same facts, and give you a completely different look at it. They will all put their own spin on it and how it SHOULD effect you. They tell you which of the facts should actually matter to you, which of the opinions you should care about, and how you should react to what they are telling you. They want to make sure that by the time they are done talking to you, you are thinking exactly what they want you to think with no deviation. They are literally brainwashing you into following their way of looking at things to help keep you controlled and working for them.
Now yes, there are some that give you more of the facts than others and will even tell you to do the research and figure it out for yourself. Last Week Tonight is big on that and I like that about them. Makes me think of Levar Burton in Reading Rainbow, "but don't just take my word for it." I think more News Media Outlets need to do that. They need to encourage their viewers to figure things out for themselves. They need to give more facts and much less opinion. They need to stop having presenters who don't actually give any news, but just spout rhetoric the entire time. They also need to stop giving air time to people like Alex Jones who prey off the fear and delusions of vulnerable people and convince them that there are things happening that could not possibly be happening, you know like child sex farms on Mars run by NASA.
The news has lost all of its integrity and people like the President and his administration are making it even harder for any honest journalists to be taken seriously. When they promote News Media Outlets that are CONSISTENTLY proven wrong time after time, and then call any media that goes against them "Fake News", then they themselves are creating a bias and making it even harder for real honest journalism to come back. The things that count as hard hitting journalism today, were nothing but fluff pieces 40 years ago. Once TV and internet took over as everyone's primary source of news gathering, and News Papers and Magazines got tossed to the wayside, so did the hard working journalists of yesteryear.
Now again, I agree that there are still great journalists and News Media Outlets out there, but the percentage of good to bad is almost to the point of finding a tasty Big Mac in the McDonald's Dumpster at midnight, sure it's there, and it's edible, but really?
It is time for the world to demand news made of facts and not opinion. It is time for the world to demand truth and integrity from our news sources, and boycott those who don't provide that. It is time to get rid of spin, or at least make sure your audience knows when the facts in the article end and when the opinion begins. Regardless of your beliefs, regardless of your personal opinions, our news should come to us as factual and un-opinionated as possible.
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