CBS Newsman Bob Schieffer, Biased or Clueless?

An informed electorate is only possible if the electorate has a high literacy rate, a thorough grounding in American history and has the rudiments of critical thought. It's bad enough that public schools have made this difficult to attain. Then there is television - the antitheses of literacy. A leading contributor to the reduced reading rates and lack of critical thought in America today.

Pray tell what does CBS/NBC/ABC do exactly to merit the distinction of "information source"? Why is it "given" that CBS is the solution to the problem? Does misinformation, disinformation, slanting and filtering promote informed discourse? Would you consider the effluent from a waste water treatment facility "drinking water?"

"The fact that readership of newspapers is down and the viewing of news on television is down - in the network form, that is - with that, we should consider that democracy is in danger," Cronkite told The AZ Republic."

Not hardly, Walter.

For instance, today, we have soldiers in the thick of the action telling us, via the internet, exactly what's happening - WITH PICTURES, no less!

Who needs TV and newspapers, except for the crossword puzzle? Our communication is better than it has ever been, we don't seem to have much need for pre-digested "news" from See Bee Ess.

I've always perceived Bob Schieffer as being the evil twin of the guy that played the commandant in the first Police Academy movie. Just as clueless, however, totally malevolent.

An informed electorate is only possible if the electorate has a high literacy rate, a thorough grounding in American history and has the rudiments of critical thought. It's bad enough that public schools have made this difficult to attain. Then there is television - the antitheses of literacy. A leading contributor to the reduced reading rates and lack of critical thought in America today.

No argument there. Very sad...but very true.

Pray tell what does CBS/NBC/ABC do exactly to merit the distinction of "information source"? Why is it "given" that CBS is the solution to the problem? Does misinformation, disinformation, slanting and filtering promote informed discourse?

No more or less than cable news networks I would suppose. They have all become little more than sensationalist, partisan, and highly divisive headline services since ABC put news under Roone Arledge whose prior experience had been sports and entertainment in the 70's. I try to go to original source material as often as I can such as CSPAN hearings, and weekly talk shows like Meet the Press with a long and distinguished record of in-depth journalistic integrity. I also watch McNeil - Lehrer for their dispassionate and objective coverage.

Would you consider the effluent from a waste water treatment facility "drinking water?"

I suppose it would depend upon how thirsty I was ;-)

CBS Newsman Bob Schieffer, Biased or Clueless?

Somebody has to ASK!!??

Talk about clueless!!