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I have tried to NOT let it slip that way. It's difficult. All this cable ethos still amazes me.

 

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And THAT is what is relatively new. Thanks to the current state of technology, we're bombarded with everyone else's opinions now.

 

Thank God for that too. I'd hate to be forced to actually put up with those 'other people'. I think we should divvy up the states, everybody move and draw the line. Everybody's happy that way.

 

Not really, not from the beginning. Reports this week from Anthropologists DNA research showed hybrid matings of Neanderthals and Denisovan humans. Both groups of DNA shows up in modern day humans also.


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0455-x

 

Cool link.

 

Sounds catchy but does not work. Even merely selecting the news items that you read or view influences how you make up your mind. And the filters are (at least) two-fold: The newspaper, TV channel or website selects what you get to see, and then you make a selection yourself. Also, even "the facts" often require additional (background) information ...

Christian

 

Yes, Christian!!

I spent FAR too many months of my life at the epicenter of a national news story. (I was the Director of a county gov't department of the very first county in the USA to be court-mandated to do something that until then ONLY counties specifically ENUMERATED in a Federal statute had to do.) I discovered that media "error" has many sub-categories.

At the most basic is factual error - the "whats" are themselves factually wrong. The media was wrong in my story at even this basic level.

The next level is the error of "what does it take to fix it" reporting. This is often reported incorrectly in the belief that the public either doesn't care about the fine details or they take too long to explain. ALL public sector stories have THIS error.

The "why this is important to you" error. This is something that starts to involve what is called "a narrative" - a neat packaged STORY theory that usually has NOTHING to do with the original story.

And then there is the worst - "This is why this is an outrage!". If you've been keeping score, this is the heart of media political bias.

We get from a little county doing what nearly EVERY podunk county in the country does - complying with state law - to "This is an OUTRAGE!" in four easy steps.

 

People would actually have to agree to what facts are first off and well, there's the rub right off the bat. Sad but apparently it sells and very well too.

 

Let me test your theory, okay?
My story in post #47.
1) My department does what literally THOUSANDS of counties do - program our elections in English.
2) There is a Voting Rights Act.
3) Part of that Act is a list, published every ten years after the census, that LISTS which counties ACROSS THE USA that must put MULTIPLE languages on their voting machines. They don't even all do it.
4) My county IS NOT ON THE LIST.
5) An activist sues us in Federal court to force us to put multiple languages on our machines.

What is the story?

There is no gotcha here. I lived this, AND was denied legal counsel, to boot.
Federal courthouse, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philly. About 16 years ago.

 

I'd say that it's very easy to identify your political persuasion and that truth seems to be selective and all of that isn't anything to do about dollar coins, which drifted into hammering a particular side by bashing CNN which further led to a response which led to nothing to do pertaining to coins, which is supposed to be frowned upon greatly here.

 

Back atcha. By the way, I DECIDED nothing. Only my bosses could make policy. And I had been on my new job TWO DAYS before the court papers came in. Literally the SECOND people from outside in my office were the Feds.

 

Alrighty then. So much for that then. Back to the OP and bashing CNN which isn't supposed to be allowed and concerning the OP. What was the post supposed to pertain to anyway?

 

I suggest that if CNN-bashing or FOX-bashing is too inextricably linked to politics, it's the problem of more people than are on this site. Can we at least agree to that? There is no requirement, after all, that it should be that way. Heck, I don't see it as even a neat idea, much less a requirement. I'd much rather tune in a channel and be able to say, "Gee, I wonder what I'll hear on here!" Please? Can we?

 

Certainly I can agree to that.

 

What's really sick is I'm starting to be able to predict the precise ANGLE a given REPORTER will take on a story. There's something wrong when I can successfully predict that with regularity.

Oh, for BOTH CNN and FOX - NOT EVERYTHING IS 'BREAKING NEWS'! Can we get over that?

 

Can I say "I agree'?

 

I'm afraid you're on the wrong side of history, at least history for the rest of this financial quarter, which is the furthest ahead any of these "news" "organizations" can be expected to look.

Our local station, which I quite liked, has apparently decided that they are losing ground to the "BREAKING NEWS" always present on the cable channels. So now, in EVERY. SINGLE. half-hour local-news broadcast, we can count on at least one cut-away to the "Breaking News" guy-with-greenscreen, to report on something that's of trivial importance, but is HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

 

Gee, if that's all it takes any more, I could have "breaking news"ed their kiesters from Philly all last week.

 

Well, their head weather guy is from Lancaster. Gotta be able to relate to all those Relocated Yankees in the heart of the viewing area...

 

"Breaking Completely Uninteresting News just in from Philadelphia...."