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After reading the latest "disturbing news" on CNN.com, I pulled their plug. Removed the CNN icon from my browser and replaced it with The Onion, "More Entertaining and Just as Informative".

I'm not a Polyanna, I just don't need some of the stuff that passes for "news".
 
The mainstream media these days is somewhere between the national enquirer and time magazine...both of which make excellent covering of the garage floor during an oil change or liner for the cat's litter box.

Drudgereport for me.
 
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If American news agencies were to actually include news, the American people would be in uproar. That's all I have to say about that. Europeans are more in-tune with the inner workings of our government than we are, it's really sad.
 
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American News channels are great, you can tune in and hear any slant on a news story you wish.

But for Facts, I tend to look elsewhere.
 
Originally Posted By: Rick in PA

After reading the latest "disturbing news" on CNN.com, I pulled their plug. Removed the CNN icon from my browser and replaced it with The Onion, "More Entertaining and Just as Informative".

I'm not a Polyanna, I just don't need some of the stuff that passes for "news".


This is about that Microsoft Tablet, isn't it? I hear ya, watching Balmer try to look hip was making me a little queasy as well...
 
Originally Posted By: GMFan
The mainstream media these days is somewhere between the national enquirer and time magazine...both of which make excellent covering of the garage floor during an oil change or liner for the cat's litter box.


Not only are they full of baloney and extremely biased, but they outright ignore major stories that do not fit the agenda.

You need many sources to get the facts. Luckily, the Internet shall provide...
 
Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
Originally Posted By: GMFan
The mainstream media these days is somewhere between the national enquirer and time magazine...both of which make excellent covering of the garage floor during an oil change or liner for the cat's litter box.


Not only are they full of baloney and extremely biased, but they outright ignore major stories that do not fit the agenda.

You need many sources to get the facts. Luckily, the Internet shall provide...
You guys seem to "get it". Thank God I am not alone...
 
Originally Posted By: DemoFly
If American news agencies were to actually include news, the American people would be in uproar. That's all I have to say about that. Europeans are more in-tune with the inner workings of our government than we are, it's really sad.


That's the truth. I think a lot of people in this country believe that things posted on social media sites and celebrity news are actually news. "I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S TRENDING ON THE TWITTER!!!" Why?

Even what used to be a neutral source of semi-useful information, The Weather Channel, is becoming a useless social media driven dump. I noticed the other day they have a "Trending on Twitter" panel on their website that just said "cloud, clouds, rain." What the [censored] does that tell me? This is what is considered information these days?

Mainstream media has pretty much degraded as far as it can into brain rotting fodder for people who think information is the vomit they share with the world through their "smart phone."
 
As one of my guys put it the other day...140 characters of conversation.

Multiple shoots, of the same lines, from different angles, to appeal to "different" audiences...and it's "news".
 
Originally Posted By: sciphi
Kinda sad when the most informed on current events are the viewers of the "news" shows on Comedy Central.


They're actually less biased than the news channels that are comfort food (or alarm bells) for their captive viewers.

They skewer both parties and points of view fairly equally.

Or turn it all off and go jogging down by the lake already to clear your head.
 
CNN = Comedy News Network

They only regurgitate what they are told to report. Truly a puppet for propaganda, depending who has their arm/hand up there at the time.
 
Yeah, MSNBC is now selectively editing things to reflect their ridiculous liberal bias. I thought the Trayvon thing with Zimmerman's comments being completely distorted through editing would have outraged more people...
 
It is awful. CNN and FOX have dreadful bias on each spectrum.

I think the masses that count towards advertising revenue need themselves validated(left or right). FOX and CNN do a good job validating people.
 
Validation is the last thing any news network should provide!

Just remember that FOX runs stories the others completely ignore, many times forcing them to eventually run the story.

That is their value, they are doing quite well in the ratings too.
 
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