Do you trust the Mainstream Media?

Miscellaneous Current Events
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Just looking for your opinion.

Does anyone here actually tune into CNN or other mainstream media and accept what you hear from the talking heads or pundits? Do you have any faith in quality or accuracy of the news?

If I want the latest from Britney Spears or Brad Pit then I believe that crap. I look at the stock ticker and listen to company news & earnings releases, factual stuff, but that’s it. Even CPI and GDP numbers, or other official gov’t numbers I take with a huge grain of salt and accept as fiction. Whenever Obama, Geithner or Bernanke talk - to me that’s just noise or misleading information or just lies.

Does anyone else feel this way about mainstream media or our bureaucrats?

Why do I feel this way? What has this country turned into? Did we all take the red pill?

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this is what it feels like to be a libertarian.

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Thats what its like. You get sick just listening to CNN, or other mainstream news medias. But, its just what the majority of the public wants to hear, no matter how stupid.

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My favourite comment you hear people say is “please don’t report the negative news - it’s just too depressing”.

I think I heard last week that the Wall Street Journal will be condensing their Business news to a section on the front page. I guess people are more interested in the arts section or sports or something.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123697747991523581.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business

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Everything they say makes sense if you cease referring to them as the mainstream media and instead describe them as the corporate media.

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For facts, yes. For analysis, no.

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CNN= Constantly Negative News

Like everyone else said: Facts: yes, opinions: no

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I don’t even trust my sister, let alone commentators.

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I regard them as part of the civil service. in a fight between the media and an elected politician the elected politician loses.

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It’s like Congressional “bipartisanship”. Sure, people complain about the fighting between factions, but it’s worst when they work together.

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I agree with this, you see in the news all the corruption, they just attribute it to un fettered capitalism