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Dave H (MI)

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....become addicted to mainstream media coverage since the election? Sometimes I make popcorn. I yell out to the wife and tell her to come quick and hear what the idiots are saying now. I'm not trying to stir anyone's pot. I just cannot believe what I am seeing and hearing. All the real news is going across the bottom of the screen in fine print. Bombing, people getting hurt. No one ever mentions it.
 
I don't watch TV but reading internet news and commentary has become much more entertaining the last week and a half.

I'm not kidding, Maddi!
 
I love it. First, "experts" said he would never be nominated. Then he could never win. Then they tried to explain how and why he won. Now they're scrambling to predict what he's going to do and most of that will be wrong. The CYA all very entertaining. And to Megan Kelly: Quit crying, he made you a star.
 
I cant believe so many kids in college still believe in Santa Clause!! They want it, they ask for it, and throw tantrums if they dont get it!
 
Facebook has gone nuts too. Election night I switched to msnbc and some others just to watch them squirm. Best time I've had in ages.
 
I've been having the time of my life, especially when i saw PA turn red for the first time in 30+ years. Watching all the news anchors eat crow and realize that no one actually listens to them as bias as they were.
 
There are lots and lots of news sources from which one can select news slanted in his/her favor. If you visit half a dozen, very interesting how others omit key parts of a piece of news to enhance their twist. Yes a lot of it is "Extra Extra Read All About It" hype, but not all of it. Course it's their site, their corporation, they can do what they want......1st Amendment umbrella. You don't have to watch them.

Think about it. You are writing an article with your fingers and your mind to be viewed by possibly the whole world.....this reply is out there for the whole world to see. What are you going to say? Are you going to report all the aspects of an event with unbiased clarity? Or is human nature going to creep in and subconsciously make your fingers tip toe around the piece.

Tough to be unbiased.
 
(quoted from post at 19:41:04 11/17/16) There are lots and lots of news sources from which one can select news slanted in his/her favor. If you visit half a dozen, very interesting how others omit key parts of a piece of news to enhance their twist. Yes a lot of it is "Extra Extra Read All About It" hype, but not all of it. Course it's their site, their corporation, they can do what they want......1st Amendment umbrella. You don't have to watch them.

Think about it. You are writing an article with your fingers and your mind to be viewed by possibly the whole world.....this reply is out there for the whole world to see. What are you going to say? Are you going to report all the aspects of an event with unbiased clarity? Or is human nature going to creep in and subconsciously make your fingers tip toe around the piece.

Tough to be unbiased.
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Yup, the days of Walter Kronkite are long gone!
 
It's interesting how people keep saying Clinton won the popular vote, but no one ever shows numbers.
 
It is terribly sad to see the condition of our nation. Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
 
I think anyone that watches the media is a mindless drone. Lets hope this thread gets POOFED! NOW
 
(quoted from post at 20:23:52 11/17/16) I think anyone that watches the media is a mindless drone. Lets hope this thread gets POOFED! NOW
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Is your middle name Hussein??? You just offended a whole lot of people with that stupid statement.....
 
That's right, the media sells fear, as a famous artists said, buy the Colgate or your teeth will rot, use this zit cream or you won't get laid, but the Lexus or you won't be popular, cut to commecial, there were floods, shootings, bombings, ect. They sell fear and millions of you are buying! Lol
 
Well, maybe people will stop and think for
themselfs, and stop believing what they here in the
media? Think about that.
 
I hate to break your bubble, but Cronkite was the worst of the bunch.

According to a post 'Nam interview of General Giap, commander of the North Vietnamese Army, in 1968 the RVN Army was breathing its last gasp and considered the Tet Offensive a last ditch effort. After taking a drubbing in the Offensive, the RVN Army was ready to call it quits. They lost the war, it was all over.

Giap said he was dumbfounded when he heard Cronkite blatantly distort the news, declare the Tet Offensive a major victory for North Vietnam, and declare it a bigtime loss for the U.S. According to Giap, that gave the RVN Army the incentive to hang on for one more day, one more week, and one more month for another seven years.

At the time of the Tet Offisive, the U.S. had about 2,000 casualties. Cronkite had the blood of some 58,000 U.S. service personnel on his hands. How anyone could give him any credibility is beyond me.
 
(quoted from post at 21:34:09 11/17/16) I hate to break your bubble, but Cronkite was the worst of the bunch.

According to a post 'Nam interview of General Giap, commander of the North Vietnamese Army, in 1968 the RVN Army was breathing its last gasp and considered the Tet Offensive a last ditch effort. After taking a drubbing in the Offensive, the RVN Army was ready to call it quits. They lost the war, it was all over.

Giap said he was dumbfounded when he heard Cronkite blatantly distort the news, declare the Tet Offensive a major victory for North Vietnam, and declare it a bigtime loss for the U.S. According to Giap, that gave the RVN Army the incentive to hang on for one more day, one more week, and one more month for another seven years.

At the time of the Tet Offisive, the U.S. had about 2,000 casualties. Cronkite had the blood of some 58,000 U.S. service personnel on his hands. How anyone could give him any credibility is beyond me.
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Sorry, guess I was too young to understand that complicated stuff at the time....he was all we had in bfe SD when I was growing up, and I never heard my dad say anything bad about him...and he was about as conservative as they come.
 
Hay, the political commercials may be gone, but at least we've got our drug company commercials back.------If anyone wishes to introduce a meaningful constitutional amendment, it should be to outlaw drug commercials. Britain, Australia, and New Zealand have already done so. Why can't the US get it done?
 
This is true. Interesting to read other news perspectives: bbc, India news, Russian news, even Al Jazeera. You find world events that domestic sources completely ignore.
 
(quoted from post at 20:21:39 11/17/16) I love it. First, "experts" said he would never be nominated. Then he could never win. Then they tried to explain how and why he won. Now they're scrambling to predict what he's going to do and most of that will be wrong. The CYA all very entertaining. And to Megan Kelly: Quit crying, he made you a star.
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EXACTLY! Could not have said it better myself! 8)
 
You are correct. Most people only read articles or watch stations from the side they agree with.

It is interesting to hear or read a report obviously slanted one direction, railing about how slanted the other sides media is in its reporting.

I hear guys talking about a newspaper being biased and then admit they have never ever read a single page.
I wonder if the guy that told them that the media was biased...was biased?

I am an American. I can read and listen and make up my own mind up. I don't need some talk show guy to tell me what I think.
 
If protesting the result of the election makes sense then why don't the Cleveland Indians fans protest the outcome of the World Series the same way?
 
Not that I'm happy with the way things turned out since the end of the primary,but now those who are protesting know how the rest of us felt after the 2008 election.
 
I don't watch national news either. The only thing that will prove who is right and who is wrong is time. How embarrassed will you be if it is you who is proven wrong?
 
Yeah. That's one of my peeves: News media summarizing for you an event you just witnessed. Trying to sway your thinking to their way of thinking about something you saw/heard 1st person singular. Course they get paid to blab so they have to blab about something otherwise they would be in the soup lines.
 
They're in the tank for the D'Rats the hacked emails proved that beyond a doubt.Great thing about the internet you can get opinions/news from a wide array of sources and
then sort it out yourself instead of a few news outlets spoon feeding what they want the general public to know.
 
I gave it up twenty years ago since I don't have
enough patience to sit through all the commercials.
My understanding is that it's only gotten worse since then.
 
I usually watch Fox news for a half an hour to an hour most nights. I find the commentators they have on usually can cut through the BS of what is happening and have good opinions. I also sometimes listen to Rush or Shawn Hannidy. OK, I admit these people didn't really see the upset. Although Rush said there was a big undercurrent for nnalert. Mostly they make sense to me. And who is it that says they are radicals or nuts? Mostly the mainstream media or the people who get their information from the mainstream media.
 
I am also deepy interested in the news. When I go to the tractor barn I can't wait to check on whats next. It was interesting to mme about the 16 buses that were used to haul protesters around and how many protesters didnt vote.
 
(quoted from post at 18:56:56 11/17/16) ....become addicted to mainstream media coverage since the election? Sometimes I make popcorn. I yell out to the wife and tell her to come quick and hear what the idiots are saying now. I'm not trying to stir anyone's pot. I just cannot believe what I am seeing and hearing. All the real news is going across the bottom of the screen in fine print. Bombing, people getting hurt. No one ever mentions it.
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When it was discovered that television could implant ideas into peoples heads theyr never looked back. IMHO its all the MSM does is try to influence how people think and they succeed all to often. my advice to myself is to not watch any so called news shows ot megyn kelly. how this bimbo ever rose to prominence is beyond me.
 
I agree with others that there is virtually NO unbiased reporting anymore. I do find the our local journalists (Detroit Free Press in particular) to be the worst.

It WILL be an interesting and entertaining 4 years. :lol:
 
Guess not, you fellers are my news source, as I don't watch the tube and don't ever turn on the radio, I am a hermit.
 
(quoted from post at 20:53:00 11/17/16) Well, maybe people will stop and think for
themselfs, and stop believing what they here in the
media? Think about that.
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OK good idea! But just where are people supposed to get input so they can think? Yes there is more than one source and IMO people should get data from as many sources as possible before making a decision. So if they turn off the news just how are they supposed to know the WTC was destroyed? Or that we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq? They did away with the town crier long ago!

Without the news we would be completely unaware that some, the protestors, would tear up the Constitution! But they most likely don't know that the electoral college was set up in the Constitution! I haven't watched much of it. But what I have seen brings back memories of those involved in the "take back Wall Street" who had absolutely no idea what they were protesting about when interviewed!

Actually, as Americans we have the right to get our input from where ever we want! If the president says something we don't have to believe him! Our country is set up that way so that no one man can become a power unto themselves!

Rick
 
I also agree Cronkite gave his own personal opinions and represented them as news. Same thing happened with war in Iraq. Just think how many lives would have been saved if the people of this country had backed the war. Once war starts it is on weather you wanted to go to war or not. I was very nervous when Bush finally decided to take out Saddam but once started , it could have been resolved much sooner. Then you pull out and lose everything we fought for just because rioters like we have now.
 
Yes, that is a worry. Thing is, the other choice of access to that red button was a bigger worry for me. Hopefully he will surround himself with open minded aids and actually listen to them.
 
(quoted from post at 12:18:31 11/18/16) I also agree Cronkite gave his own personal opinions and represented them as news. Same thing happened with war in Iraq. Just think how many lives would have been saved if the people of this country had backed the war. Once war starts it is on weather you wanted to go to war or not. I was very nervous when Bush finally decided to take out Saddam but once started , it could have been resolved much sooner. Then you pull out and lose everything we fought for just because rioters like we have now.
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Actually no, the same thing didn't happen. What happened was nothing. That nothing happened because there was no post invasion occupation plan. When the US got involved in WWII Roosevelt got a group of people together who spent most of the war in DC figuring out post war plans for Germany and Japan with the end goal of not punishing them but helping them rebuild as non aggressive nations. The allowed senior military commanders who were vetted to return to duty. In Iraq anyone from the Bath party (to be an officer in the Iraq military you had to be a member of the Bath party) was barred from serving as an officer. SO when the pressure was on to prove that we were not empire building we A: turned governing over to the people before they were ready for it and B: reestablished their military and with senior commanders with only 5-10 years of service in command. Then we said "SEE YA"! You are on your own! All this because we had no plan.

Rick
 
A long time ago, I realized that it was a waste of my time and effort to get my shorts in a bunch over things that I have no control over, and do not affect my daily life. This stuff has been going on for a long time before Fox, CNN and others have started 24-hour "news" channels.
In my opinion, they are trying to stir the pot. For what reason, I do not know. We "regular" people have no input or say in what goes on in the government's daily routine. It just isn't worth getting worked up over.
 
(quoted from post at 00:34:09 11/18/16) I hate to break your bubble, but Cronkite was the worst of the bunch.

According to a post 'Nam interview of General Giap, commander of the North Vietnamese Army, in 1968 the RVN Army was breathing its last gasp and considered the Tet Offensive a last ditch effort. After taking a drubbing in the Offensive, the RVN Army was ready to call it quits. They lost the war, it was all over.

Giap said he was dumbfounded when he heard Cronkite blatantly distort the news, declare the Tet Offensive a major victory for North Vietnam, and declare it a bigtime loss for the U.S. According to Giap, that gave the RVN Army the incentive to hang on for one more day, one more week, and one more month for another seven years.

At the time of the Tet Offisive, the U.S. had about 2,000 casualties. Cronkite had the blood of some 58,000 U.S. service personnel on his hands. How anyone could give him any credibility is beyond me.
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I agree with you whole all the way.
 
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