Riddle me this

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Here are three posts about this subject. I am really exercised about this. It would be nice to move about in today's society without this armor of cynicism regarding the media, BUT, I just don't see how. It would be like taking a jog on the freeway. You'd be crushed, and forgotten.

Post 1: Somebody, mrnoodle actually, casually mentioned a leftwing media conspiracy. That started it. This was my response. Although I began talking the silliness of the "conspiracy", I was really hacked about the hipocrisy in the news.

So Clodfobble called me on it. Post 2: She took me to task for taking out of context some remarks in a FOXNews story. That's fair, she was, after all, right. I did do that. But that highlights the core issue here, and that is context. Much of this crap-ola we're subjected to in the news media is presented as though it were news, and it's not. A point SteveDallas is trying to recocile. Good luck with that, by the way.

Here was my response to Clodfobble's question/accusation.

Post 3: I took the opportunity to talk about the difference between "news" and "infotainment". I could be cerebral and aim for "logos" again, but I'm too tired. I'll settle for "pathos". In this case it's the same. I am emotionally affected (nauseated and infuriated) by the truth of the matter: They lie, and do so with impugnity.

I'll just go throw up now.

ps: I guess it's poor form to quote oneself so freely, since it's done so infrequently here. I'll bear the cost, though, because this thread is a better match than the Iraq thread for the spirit of these posts.