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Post by The Inspector on Dec 29, 2019 21:39:02 GMT -5
The news is not news any more. It's opinion.
We can't stop companies from voicing their opinion, but we could stop the from calling it news.
The news is something you can fact check!
If most of Fox news was opinion,it could not be called news, just fox opinion show.
You would have do the with CNN too. We need to make a clear line between opinion and news, because it is clear many people can't!
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Post by helen on Dec 30, 2019 11:00:21 GMT -5
Opinions can be so much more interesting than facts. And it's much easier to come up with new ones and therefore more easily justify the proclamation "BREAKING NEWS!! IOW, it sells papers
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2019 11:37:13 GMT -5
At this point, I don't think you can separate the two. How could anyone do that? Currently, even trump's tweets are news because that is how he communicates.
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Post by helen on Dec 30, 2019 11:56:48 GMT -5
Maybe that's why it's called "The 6 O'Clock News" rather than "The 6 O'Clock Facts". What is meant is 'here's something that maybe you've not heard before'. At one time, giving news that was not provable fact was the kiss of death for a newsman (think Dan Rather and Baby Bush) but that doesn't seem to matter so much anymore.
Call it new normal?
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Post by 2old on Dec 30, 2019 16:40:23 GMT -5
We were talking, this morning at the golf course, about all the mass shootings. Down through the years, there have been murders and shootings. But, folks in McWheneyville, Kansas didn't know when someone was shot in Podunk, Texas. Today, local newscasts in Arizona include reports of shootings in New Jersey. The local news is filled more with violence from miles away than kind acts of people down the street. Fed enough of that violence on a daily basis, we become to think that violence is a way of life. Kids grow up assuming the next door neighbor will beat his/her spouse. They assume they will lose a school friend in a shooting. You fear forming close relationships or friendships since you think it will be marred by violence. Happens everywhere else, so will happen to me! Our society is hurting.....
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