'Murica! (135 Viewers)

Aug 26, 2014
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I think you have a rather rosy, idealistic, and financially unsunstainable image of what the media is supposed to do. This isn't 1961 where your access to the broadcast spectrum is predicated by the FCC to require some kind of public service programming ... which is how TV news started. Conflict sells. Exaggeration sells. Outlandish sells. Facts are boring, dull, and dead. They don't boil men's blood. Nobody wants to pay for that. Otherwise PBS News would be the #1 news network in America.
Well it's idealistic because it will never happen now, but the news should be presented in impartial manner. When you mix entertainment in all of it you get this mess we got today. That's why the people are more and more divided.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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US foreign policy sucks big time, plain and simple.
It does. But as much as I appreciate Trump not starting more wars (Hillary Clinton would have started at least 3-4... she's 10x more hawk than Netanyahu), the assassination of Qasem Soleimani and what followed technically got a bunch of innocent Iranian civilians killed on a Ukrainian passenger jet and almost drew the US into an all-out war. So Trump does not get a pass.

Let's also not forget that Iran has a long memory and the US has probably not heard the last of that.

They got what they wanted. Guess that wasn't enough!

WHERE IS PRESIDENT BIDEN?!


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It might be just getting started.

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Super spreaders of freedom.
It's funny how some Republicans disavow their association with QAnon loonies, but somehow Portland nutjobs become a project of the Democratic party and Biden's election.

She looks in a lot of pain. I actually feel bad for her.
It's messed up. She's seeing the devil come to her in her sleep. That Kool-Aid is too irresistible.

Literally, people's lives are being ruined by that cynically sick fabrication of lies.

Everyone knows it was George Soros.
His fingers are in everything. In fact, I don't know if anyone caught part of the inauguration last night where JoeBiden (it seems his name is one word, the way everyone pronounces it now) and Jill Biden went to the back of the Lincoln Memorial and burned a human sacrifice to George.

The thing is these defund BBC types don't really want factual reporting, they want news tailored for them. If they really wanted factual reporting they would understand that some news will make you feel uncomfortable. However they don't want to feel uncomfortable and thus they only want to read news that feed into their view of the world.
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Why do you hate Parisians?
They do have a socialist mayor. That puts them one step from being a city of Satanic cannibal pedophiles.
 

maxi

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Aug 31, 2006
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The thing is these defund BBC types don't really want factual reporting, they want news tailored for them. If they really wanted factual reporting they would understand that some news will make you feel uncomfortable. However they don't want to feel uncomfortable and thus they only want to read news that feed into their view of the world.
The problem the BBC has is that whilst it 'tries' to be impartial, it sometimes represents that impartiality in a biased way.
They selectively choose topics for the news to focus on, shedding more light on certain issues that may give a more positive portrayal of the left more so than the right for example. I'm not asking for the BBC to shift further to the right in general. I'm saying they should just state stories as they are objectively, without the subtle left-wing undertones in their reporting, and to present a fair share of ideas from both sides of the political spectrum.

Let's not even talk about their entertainment section.
 
Jun 6, 2015
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The problem the BBC has is that whilst it 'tries' to be impartial, it sometimes represents that impartiality in a biased way.
They selectively choose topics for the news to focus on, shedding more light on certain issues that may give a more positive portrayal of the left more so than the right for example. I'm not asking for the BBC to shift further to the right in general. I'm saying they should just state stories as they are objectively, without the subtle left-wing undertones in their reporting, and to present a fair share of ideas from both sides of the political spectrum.

Let's not even talk about their entertainment section.
Sure but the problem is that people have very different views on what constitutes as "impartial" or "objective". For example reporting objectively about the adverse effects of Brexit is not biased but it will still make quite a few people angry.
 

Elvin

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Nov 25, 2005
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Well it's idealistic because it will never happen now, but the news should be presented in impartial manner. When you mix entertainment in all of it you get this mess we got today. That's why the people are more and more divided.
You guys watched the show "Newsroom"?

Best ever show about journalism :touched:
 

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