Walley
Well-known member
over the last decade or so, I have noticed a real shift in news organizations.
I used to have a morning ritual of dropping my kids off at the school bus and then meeting my work partner for a coffee before we started our day, and there I would read the local newspaper.
I started to become more and more disillusioned about the paper though, as we started approaching an election.
The next thing I know, everything became slanted towards the editors' personal political agendas and the entire rag seemed like it was designed to influence the readers about who to vote for.
and walley don't play that game!
just give me the news.. not your opinion on it.
and so I basically gave up on reading that paper. but then when I looked at the competitive news around.. they were just as bad or worse but slanted to the opposing views..
I noticed that the more the internet took over, printed news seemed to get more and more aggressive and pander to certain demo graphs more than ever before.
now it's to the point where everything I read tends to be like this, and online news are even worse!
places like the Huff post that are pure left-leaning socialist (they claim to be liberal but..) and others are merely reflections of the right leaning counterparts and I personally don't trust a thing I read on them simply due to the fact that they are opinionated articles, and too often human nature will gloss over facts to push opinions and agendas.
so now here we are.. in a place were all news seems skewed because of personal views.
where do we get the facts now?
just the facts, all the facts, no slants.
where is the journalistic integrity that used to be the main doctrine of the profession?
have they all become tabloids and paparazzi?
what good is the freedom to have free speech and open societies if this is what we do with it...
I used to have a morning ritual of dropping my kids off at the school bus and then meeting my work partner for a coffee before we started our day, and there I would read the local newspaper.
I started to become more and more disillusioned about the paper though, as we started approaching an election.
The next thing I know, everything became slanted towards the editors' personal political agendas and the entire rag seemed like it was designed to influence the readers about who to vote for.
and walley don't play that game!
just give me the news.. not your opinion on it.
and so I basically gave up on reading that paper. but then when I looked at the competitive news around.. they were just as bad or worse but slanted to the opposing views..
I noticed that the more the internet took over, printed news seemed to get more and more aggressive and pander to certain demo graphs more than ever before.
now it's to the point where everything I read tends to be like this, and online news are even worse!
places like the Huff post that are pure left-leaning socialist (they claim to be liberal but..) and others are merely reflections of the right leaning counterparts and I personally don't trust a thing I read on them simply due to the fact that they are opinionated articles, and too often human nature will gloss over facts to push opinions and agendas.
so now here we are.. in a place were all news seems skewed because of personal views.
where do we get the facts now?
just the facts, all the facts, no slants.
where is the journalistic integrity that used to be the main doctrine of the profession?
have they all become tabloids and paparazzi?
what good is the freedom to have free speech and open societies if this is what we do with it...