“True, journalism isn’t perfect. But such widespread disdain toward journalists is predicated upon exaggerations and misconceptions.”
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
The legacy media is a bad joke. I don’t know much except about motorcycles, airplanes and scientific stuff I learned during my education and career as an exploration geologist. Whenever the media reports on something I know about, they are so misinformed it is scary!
If they are always wrong about the few things I know about, it makes me believe they must be wrong also about the thousands of things I DON’T know about!
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The news media has always been biased.
Up until the 1950s every major city had at least two newspapers, and sometimes more. Bias was more acceptable since they could balance each other out.
When television began to take over providing news, there were only three networks, and to be honest, the coverage was almost universally the same.
The decline in newspapers correspond to the rise of television, and now most major cities only have one paper. So those still getting their news from newspapers, are only being exposed to one view.
So the bias remained but the number of options declined.
Now, with the internet, and sites like FreeRepublic, we can be exposed to a wide range of sources for news. True the bias remains, but the readers are able to provide balance.
It is now up to individuals to decide how much weight to put on any particular view, and make up their own mind on issues.
Information is bypassing the gatekeepers, and that explains why they want to shut down sites like this one.
“True, journalism isn’t perfect. But such widespread disdain toward journalists is predicated upon exaggerations and misconceptions.”
Journalist report thyself!