I miss John Stewart. Sure he was left-leaning, but he understood his job, which was to highlight the absurdity of the news media machine itself, not just serve as a cheerleader for one side. None of his contemporaries get this.
As a (proudly) registered independent, what I object to is each party has its assigned news outlets to push its views. Whatever your politics, there's a news channel to regurgitate your opinions back at you and call it news.
When I was a kid we had the infamous three channels only, ABC, NBC, and CBS. They had to obey the FCC's Fairness Doctrine. They did have editorials, but they had to be labeled as editorial opinions, not news.
Also now we have the internet, so nothing has to be sourced or fact checked. I could literally make up a conspiracy theory here right now on the spot, and if it got enough page views it would go into a lot of people's brains as hard fact.
tl;dr We're lost. We can't even agree on what reality is anymore.
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I miss John Stewart. Sure he was left-leaning, but he understood his job, which was to highlight the absurdity of the news media machine itself, not just serve as a cheerleader for one side. None of his contemporaries get this.
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I see a Patrice quote, I upvote.
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As a (proudly) registered independent, what I object to is each party has its assigned news outlets to push its views. Whatever your politics, there's a news channel to regurgitate your opinions back at you and call it news.
When I was a kid we had the infamous three channels only, ABC, NBC, and CBS. They had to obey the FCC's Fairness Doctrine. They did have editorials, but they had to be labeled as editorial opinions, not news.
Also now we have the internet, so nothing has to be sourced or fact checked. I could literally make up a conspiracy theory here right now on the spot, and if it got enough page views it would go into a lot of people's brains as hard fact.
tl;dr We're lost. We can't even agree on what reality is anymore.
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Don't like him, but that is correct.
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There you go. https://youtu.be/GIwpypavI4o https://youtu.be/Rn5HZKgZl7Y
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