Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Beanz View Post
The thing is we have to acknowledge that it cuts across the board from the far left to the far right and everything inbetween. Independent Media too, this is not an entirely new thing but it has certainly become more widespread in the last few years. It is not so much that one should question everything, more that it is often good practice to not believe everything is kosher before passing or sending it on. It is like the far end of a Chinese whisper is now the starting point and people have started to invent personal news to fulfill their own vision of how the world works.
The establishment media is in the hands of very few people/corporations (soon to be fewer when FoxNews is sold to ABC/Disney), they have a certain narrative in mind....they don't appreciate criticism, they don't appreciate people seeing it a different way, they don't appreciate challenges of any kind.....and they lie with facility.
and..? that is the thing. How you react and deal with that fact. Kind of always been the case in may ways but what was the press is now electronic and broadcasters. The same is true here though the politics are often reversed so that the left can do no right, in the way they can do no wrong in America. And I meant what I said about independent media too. Recently it is incredibly partisan in one way or another and consumers will praise that as though that is there Job.

There are so many opinion pieces parading as news.