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Oldskeptic wrote:

crank wrote:

Oldskeptic wrote:

Willie71 wrote:The "liberal media" is a fiction created by the republicans to create distrust in reality.

And your idea of the Main Stream Media being an organ of the "establishment" is the same, a fiction created to instill distrust in the same reality, only in a different direction.

The reality is that the press is what it is, not controlled by the far right or the far left. What we do have is a far left press and a far right press, neither of which describes the Main Stream Press. Something I find it laughable is, the news outlets that do tend to tell different sides of a story, when there are more than one being told, being called biased by people on the left and right that only tell their side of the story.

What I find is that I can read a story like the DAPL protests in the liberal press and a story on the same event in the conservative press and they are nothing alike, and there is always some political or ideological and or emotional message being delivered by whoever is supposedly delivering the news. In my opinion the Main Stream Media are the only news sources that have not descended into near total ideological sermonizing.

Information when it is completely one sided is not information, and it certainly isn't news. Fox News is not news, it's carefully selected bits of information combined with self-righteous sermonizing, and The Young Turks are no different.

No one paying attention should have trouble noticing that the more extreme in their liberal or conservative views the more the telling to the viewer what to think goes on. That, my friend, is not to be admired as a standard of journalism; whether it's on the part of the right or the left.

Information that is one sided, as in 'on the side of facts' is actually a good source of information.

A fact from the left press: A concussion grenade thrown by police nearly blew an arm off a young woman protestor.

A fact from the right press: A propane bottle bomb intended to be thrown at police by demonstrators exploded prematurely and injured a young woman protestor.

A fact from Main Stream Media: Protestors say that a concussion grenade thrown by police nearly blew an arm off a young woman protestor, while police spokespersons say that protestors may have been building propane bottles to explode. Investigations have so far been inconclusive.