Had to give you "likes" for your last three postings. One of the main reasons, IMHO, for the current sad state of affairs in society is that their side is winning in the war of words. It used to be that the news was an hour long and someone would just come on and report on it. No commentary. No nothing. Just reading from a script things like "President Johnson today said he would escalate the bombing......" or President Kennedy gave a well received speech where he said "Ask not what your country can do for you........" and so on.
What has happened though is that these NEWS stations found they could get more viewers and advertising revenue by hiring more controversial people who would do commentary on the news and when this worked, it snowballed into other channels seeing their ratings decline and they had to jump on the bandwagon of commentary instead of news. People then tuned in to watch NOT the news but the well dressed handsome men and then after the perfectly coiffed females who were telling them NOT the news but what to THINK about the news. As this genre became more popular, the owners of these former news stations (They should have that title taken away) hired more and more controversial people who have zero training in investigation and reporting. People like Al Sharpton, Mika an Joe, Katy Tur, Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon and run it 24/7 so that impressionable minds are now saturated with hatred because they are running 24/7 hate news against conservatives and now against Trump.
When run continually over and over and the only "news" people get, they start believing these commentators. People are very easily indoctrinated as we see here on these boards of the many indoctrinated sheep who call themselves left or liberal or independent. They are being taught pure hatred against this president and it shows here on these boards.
I agree in general with you view on this, but I have started to wonder if US News outlets were EVER shooting straight.
Of course, during WW2, the news services whether on radio with the NBC's of the world or on Newsreels with the FOX's of the world were propagandists in an us vs them narrative.
Following that, there was a general herd mentality of the news outlets through the 50's in which every outlet told the same story. We ASSUMED that the ONE narrative was the accurate reporting. It was probably only the agreed upon narrative.
With very limited width of opinion through about the late 80's, our news services told us a story that was pretty much echoed from one to the other.
At the end of the 80's, talk radio was rising and there was an additional view point added to the national discussion as AM radio program managers tried to fill their empty broadcast days.
When FOX News was established, we suddenly had counter programming based on a new point of view to the agreed upon narrative and suddenly the agreed upon narratives were exposed as only "narratives", not reporting.
For those like me who have a half-assed critical view of most things, the contrast was stark. The petty differences of the leftists on NBC, CBS and ABC are STILL petty. They are all in left field.
Sometimes one straddles the foul line and other times another one straddles the fouls line. They all live near the left field foul line.
Editorializing starts with story selection, then it continues with the story structure, the general story's tone, who is quoted, what part of their words are quoted, what facts are included and what facts are omitted.
Obviously, not EVERYONE and EVERYTHING can be included into every story. HOWEVER, when the stories we are routinely subjected to are routinely biased to the extent that they are, we must assume that there is a design driving the framing process.
To even the most willfully blind, it should be oddly interesting that all of the "Liberal Media" is parroting the same erroneous stories as a chorus when the actual facts are departed from the reporting.
Should be, but isn't.
Very few ask this one simple question: "If this is true, what else must be true?"
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