4 Feb 2023 1:49 pm
Perhaps I should clarify.Monderegal » 04 Feb 2023, 9:28 am » wrote: ↑ I've heard that argument before. The truth is the media has really no limits on how they choose to cover the news. You can be as conservative or liberal as you want in your news coverage. Hell, even the founding fathers saturated the colonies with anti-British literature and pamphlets. There are limits on libel and imposed rules such as the early days of television where most Americans got their news from a handful of channels. However, the notion that media needs to be unbias goes back to Hearst newspapers where the press baron created newspapers that were free from bias in news coverage as a selling point. There is no real point in saying that Fox News can't report a conservative viewpoint or CNN, MSNBC reporting a liberal viewpoint.
The "media" I'm referring to is the reporting of actual news and not the op-ed/entertainment that make up 95% of the media these days.
Reporting the news should be as void of opinion and slant as possible, and more of presenting the facts as known at the time.
We don't have that anymore.
The nightly "news" is more op-ed than anything these days, and people are souring on being told what to think by supposed "respected and trusted" reporters anymore. Especially when their opinions turn out be garbage.
It's not news anymore. It's commentary.
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