Should the US consider adopting the European style where people already know what kind of perspective they would find when they read a newspaper or a magazine?
From what I understand that is the way it used to be years ago. Usually two papers in each town - One Democrat leaning, one Repbulican leaning. That way citizens could read both and figure out which one was telling the truth. Nowadays you have newpaper agencies like Gannet, McClatchy, etc... that have taken over these smaller papers, and usually there is only one paper in a given area (like the one I live in).
It gets even worse when you still have the APPEARANCE of two separate papers - like in Denver. The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News are owned by the SAME company (the Denver Newspaper Agency), although they both publish a daily paper. While one may lean left, and the other a little right, it is NOTHING like what it used to be.
There actually used to be major-league newspapers which were known to favor Republicans editorially. I can’t think of any such today. Magazines like Time once leaned Republican. Today, most mass magazines and network broadcasting are Leftist propaganda organs. Aren’t there any conservatives with enough money to buy a major media outlet? Most undecided independent voters get all their “ideas” from these media. People like Rush and the other conservative or libertarian commentators and bloggers are mostly just preaching to the crowd, not changing minds.
“Should the US consider adopting the European style where people already know what kind of perspective they would find when they read a newspaper or a magazine?”
There’s a paper in Dover, New Hampshire called the “Daily Democrat”.....OK, at least you know what you’re getting.
It’s not the agenda that bothers me, it’s the vehement denial by the media that they have an agenda.
“Fake but accurate” My Butt!
We have that already, but the MSM refuses to admit it. The NY Times, WaPo, LA Times, Philly Inquirer, and the rest of the "top 25" metropolitan area dailies are nearly all in the range from liberal to very liberal. Yet they pretend they are smack in the center and perfectly objective etc. It is the dishonesty and deceit that is most wearing to me. I KNOW perfectly well what they stand for but they won't admit it.