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hoolstoptheheels

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Then cancel your subscription to the WP and get one to the FT.


Start watching the NewsHour.

The "problem" with the media is two-fold as I see it - and it really comes down to the consumers of news. First, a misconception about some lost golden era of unbiased reporting. I think bias ebbs and flows, and there probably will come a time when our society is less polarized and reporting seems less biased as a result. I think the advent of TV as a primary medium, during which many of us grew up, combined with the uniting effect of the Cold War, gives rise to what I like to call the "Cronkite fallacy". Walter Cronkite was perfectly neutral and trusted by all (or at least that's how we now view him). And it was true to a degree. TV was virtually non-competitive by today's standards, and the news was not a profit center. News reporting was part of the cost of doing business.

Ironically, everyone complains about the lefty news bias, but it was FOX who paved the way to our current environment. It showed how much money there was to be made in echo chamber appeal. So, yeah, if everyone cancels their subscriptions to the WP and NYT, stops watching FOX and MSNBC, etc, the media will change its delivery of the news. But the market isn't doing that - in fact, FOX had the highest ratings while O was in office and righties were losing it, and since Trump, I believe MSNBC may have eclipsed FOX, at least in certain time slots.

Anyway, I think some of your (and many people's) frustrations are overblown by nostalgia for a fictional past of media unbiased glory, and somewhat misplaced - media outlets give us what we demand or go out of business.

(In response to this post by Faz d. Hoo)

Posted: 01/07/2019 at 09:16AM



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Analysis on A1 -- Faz d. Hoo 01/06/2019 10:24PM
  I have zero empathy for govt employees ** -- ConnHoo 01/08/2019 07:44AM
  In their defense, in this particular case -- wahoo138 01/07/2019 12:53PM
  Don't hold your breath. he's hopeless. ** -- 111Balz 01/07/2019 12:40PM
  That is not what he is proposing... ** -- hoothat 01/07/2019 11:37AM
  Enjoy the bubble you have wrapped yourself in. -- hoothat 01/07/2019 11:59AM
  Why are you here? ** -- hoothat 01/07/2019 12:04PM
  Then cancel your subscription to the WP and get one to the FT. -- hoolstoptheheels 01/07/2019 09:16AM
  In a nutshell its about nostalgia IMO. -- hoolstoptheheels 01/07/2019 10:20AM
  Same. And Hallie Jackson at 6:33** -- jackethoo 01/07/2019 10:54AM
  There is a pretty wide variety of options. -- hoolstoptheheels 01/07/2019 10:27AM
  See yellow journalism. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 01/07/2019 09:23AM
  Correct. -- Chuck Taylor 01/07/2019 1:30PM
  I totally disagree with that. -- hoolstoptheheels 01/07/2019 09:38AM
  There's a reason i put facts in quotations -- HokieDan95 01/07/2019 10:02AM
  Tough to find truly neutral reporting ** -- Tuckahokie 01/07/2019 08:31AM
  Like I said...tough to find truly neutral reporting ** -- Tuckahokie 01/07/2019 09:32AM
  Which doesn't mean you can't. -- hoolstoptheheels 01/07/2019 09:52AM
  They are absolutely a minority. By definition. -- hoolstoptheheels 01/07/2019 10:25AM
  LOLPOTY! ** -- Hoodafan 01/07/2019 11:25AM
  I'm sure sometimes I do it better than others. -- hoolstoptheheels 01/07/2019 10:45AM
  I don't believe that is universally true. -- hoolstoptheheels 01/07/2019 11:42AM
  Yup. You lost it. ** -- hoothat 01/07/2019 11:28AM
  In your opinion is it "biased" to point out when he lies? -- Hoocinogenic 01/07/2019 04:01AM
  Woosh... ** -- hoothat 01/06/2019 11:17PM
  Yup. Propaganda. ** -- hoothat 01/06/2019 10:41PM
  Nope, that's the liberal mission -- Faz d. Hoo 01/07/2019 08:59AM
  He’s a troll faz, wouldn’t waste your time. ** -- hooyorkcity 01/07/2019 11:26AM

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