Partisan News
 

I was watching a video link provided by Grumpy in another thread this morning and when the story was complete it rolled into the next story.
Here is that "next story."

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video0...dropped-obama/

(Fox does not provide a direct link so you need to click on the second story.
Obama playing golf on Memorial Day.)

I don't care if you are Keith Oberman, the lesbian that follows him, the nut job at 5pm on Fox (eastern time) or Hannity, I have had it with partisan news.
Especially hate news which these folks and others practice.
Personally I am gonna make an effort to avoid this crap.
I don't see how this can be good for the country.
Yes, the country is clearly divided. Best I can figure is that about 20% are wing nuts, 10% liberal loonies 20% disinterested and about 50% regular folk who side left on some issues and right on some.
For the media to have taken sides to represent their little radical group is plain old fashioned un American to me.
Do you think this is healthy?

That is why we never watch Fox nor MSNBC or Blitzer and Dobbs.

CNN, Washington post and the NY times are all about the same.

Hmmmmm....Wonder how far I'd get if I dressed up in a Confederate general's uniform & parked myself in front of a polling place in a black neighborhood ?!? Of course, around here, I'd spend the rest of the day talking & visiting, because everybody here knows everybody else, black & white, usually going back several generations. I couldn't ever really show my ass like that in front of people I consider my friends, anyway. Some of the older black ladies would prolly tell me to go home & change my clothes, & since a couple of 'em about half raised me, I'd put my tail between my legs, drop my head, go "Yes, Ma'am", & do it...

Curious, who do you think is relatively fair and balanced?

Same question.

AFAIK, Walter Cronkite.

Seriously, I try to read news from all the major feeds with my bullshit filter engaged. I know I am not always fully informed, or even half informed sometimes, but I do the best I can with the information presented.

Any rousing recommendations welcome.

None they all have an agenda. Their own.

That story actually surprised me, but it shouldn't have. I wonder if the Panthers will get some stimulus money......................like acorn. :rolleyes:

Lehrer on PBS and the BBC news. I would also go with CBC if we were within range.

If Fox news truly were fair and balanced, then why the hell do they have to keep telling us so? I can make my own judgment calls, thank you very much.

I'm with Grumpy, though. All news outlets have their own slant, their own agenda. Listening to just one news source won't get you all you need or want to know on a story. Gotta listen or read or watch a few and make your own composite story on an issue. Yeah, it's hard work.
Rob? Here's a link to the CBC hourly newscasts (opens a browser page):
http://www.cbc.ca/video/popup_nlp.ht...yradionews.wma

This is a philosophical approach championed by Rove, just lie, the masses are chumps and will believe you. I must say Cheney is now taking this approach to an even higher level.

I love it when people say the Washpost is a liberal paper; George Will, Charles Krauthamer, Michael Gerson, all flaming liberals.

Well that killed the thread in a hurry.:D

Never a truer statement Dave......

This is so true. Some sources do a better job of delivering information than others. I appreciate Democracy Now, Bill Moyers' Journal, and the PBS program Now as good sources of in-depth information viewed through a lens that's pretty easy to see through. Although you have to keep in mind who writes the checks for the PBS programs.

http://www.democracynow.org/

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html

http://www.pbs.org/now/

I used to really like NPR for my news but many years ago they went IMO liberal. Or at the very least Democrat. Sad..

When I want news I want just whats known. Not their own personal thoughts.

Npr
 

I finally had to give up on one of the local college stations because of NPR. They would keep playing their newscast over and over...and that fake european accent the hosts always use really gets on my nerves.

If there's one thing I hate worse than a fake, it's a fake trying to blow smoke up my ass.

Chas

"If there's one thing I hate worse than a fake, it's a fake trying to blow smoke up my ass."


10-4 Good-Buddy! :)