Why Call It News Any More?

I'm not going to watch corp. news any longer... I feel that is doing something about it.
I may write CNN if I find they were doing this.

[FloridaDragon]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

I'm not going to watch corp. news any longer... I feel that is doing something about it.
I may write CNN if I find they were doing this.

I agree and that was part of the point I was trying to make to tw but he never got it. The news sources we have all present the truth, some conjecture and falsehoods/inaccuracies. It is the proportions of each that are hard to know and to put your FAITH in any of them as pure truth is just plain crazy. Everyone out there has a slant and until you take that into consideration then you might believe everything on CNN, or FOX or [pick one]. Personally I don't trust any of them. Get my general news from CNN, watch FOX once a month just to laugh usually.... (but I laugh at CNN too, so I guess that is only fair). I freely admit to not being as knowledgeable about US and World events as I should. (but we only have so much time in a day and that is not how I choose to spend it!)

[tw]

Originally Posted by FloridaDragon

I agree and that was part of the point I was trying to make to tw but he never got it. ... Everyone out there has a slant and until you take that into consideration then you might believe everything on CNN, or FOX or [pick one]. Personally I don't trust any of them. Get my general news from CNN, watch FOX once a month just to laugh usually....

Because the local gossip (ie Ten O clock news that hypes a latest murder or reports on car crashes without ever saying why it happened or how to avoid the same mistake) perverts perspective, then all news services pervert perspective? That is what you said then and that is what you are saying now.

CNN mostly reports only that a news story exists; woefully insufficient as a primary news source. If CNN is considered a primary news source, then a consumer has, essentially, no news - insufficient knowledge of the world. Meanwhile, Fox News is news only sufficient to report propaganda. Fox News has same purpose as 1965 Radio Moscow.

Cartoon describes news best described as 'local gossip'. 'Local gossip' reports hype. For example, they ask, "How do you feel". Is that news? Obviously not. When one's primary news source is only CNN, and if one assumes is a typical news source, then one has a distorted grasp of reality.

Responsible news reporters such as Peter Jennings were even blunt with fluff news types. I suspect Barbara Walters was describing a confrontation because Barbara confused fluff - ie Hollywood interviews - with news. According to logic by FloridaDragon, if Barbara Walters did news badly, then all news sources do news badly.

For example, FloridaDragon, tell us about the Sprately Islands. Did CNN report on that military confrontation? Where was your news source when this battle was fought? Were reasons for that battle reported? Responsible news sources, if using them, means a larger significance behind Sprately Islands is common knowledge.

Meanwhile the local gossip shows a car crash. Did they report how that crash happened, why it happened, and how you can avoid making the same mistake? No. They simply report hype - a smashed car and the number of victims. That's not news. That's hype: an emotion that is too often confused as fact. Same confusion causes so many to consider Fox News - propaganda - as news.