Do you dislike the mainstream media?

Do you dislike the mainstream media?

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Devout Pessimist said:
How is CBC any better than CNN or MSNBC? It seems like all CBC does these days is shill for Trudeau and insult Trump. One of the most disgusting things CBC did was feature a sympathetic human interest piece on terrorist Omar Khadr almost immediately after Trudeau paid him 10.5 million dollars. CBC is a leftist propaganda channel.
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They are hot garbage. But we have other options as well. I do not like the CBC and it is disgusting my tax dollars fund it.
 
Unbelievable there are still people that champion the MSM, it exposes itself daily as an agenda driven mind warp constantly keeping people from getting to the actual story. This is an internet forum where people are supposed to be a little more in tune but you still see the zombified drones siding with them.

You can watch and listen to it but need to use your own brain to determine what is garbage and what isn't. Never take the official narrative as the end all be all.
 
Juventud said:
This threads been done a bunch of times since Trumps been crying like a baby about the media.

CNN has stepped up their game since the election working alongside The New York Times, Washington Post and The Hill who've also done good breaking news reporting about Trumps administration firings and getting scoops on the Mueller investigation.

The right wing and left wing online media have been shit since the election.
Gateway pundit, Daily Wire & Breitbart just run Trump ball licking pieces and conspiracy stories.
The Daily Beast, Mother Jones and Huffington Post run outrage non-factual pieces on the left.
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Its no wonder when you post some of the most ignorant uneducated statements on this forum.
 
Definitely, but that doesn't mean I think the media is wrong about Trump. They get their ratings, he gets his attention, they both win. This all started with Fox's cartoonish bastardization of their "journalism" which was successful in earning them money.
 
Ancient Aliens now have more viewers than CNN... Probably less fiction.
 
What I have learnt from this subforum is the amount of negative people that do resides here.

Where do you get the news? Or are you all experts in source criticism?

Please give me some example of good english news sites(tv, streaming) where both sides can agree.
 
sweede said:
What I have learnt from this subforum is the amount of negative people that do resides here.

Where do you get the news? Or are you all experts in source criticism?

Please give me some example of good english news sites(tv, streaming) where both sides can agree.
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Not blindly trusting the same people who have lied us in to every war is negative? No wonder sweden is teetering on the verge of collapse. You poor naive soul.
 
RockstarChris said:
The Sherdog News Network. SNN. Chuck Liddell will be the host.
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sniper said:
Not blindly trusting the same people who have lied us in to every war is negative? No wonder sweden is teetering on the verge of collapse. You poor naive soul.
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We can agree on that, and the biggest fool in that mess was the Brits trusting USA and it´s intel. No wonder they were kind of negative when a republican president in the shape of Trump was visiting.

I agree with you, when we have all our modern tools, we should use them. But it is also time consuming and we have got to a point where we are questioning anything and everything. Do you think that is a good development?

Sniper, could you give me some examples of good news you use in your daily life?
 
ultramanhyata said:
The MSM is a living example of why finding a market and doing whatever you need to to sell as many commodities as possible to that market (aka, capitalism) is not a sound basis for a healthy society.
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That may be true (I think it is), but it's hard to think of a realistic alternative.

Well, I guess alternative media is that alternative.. hah. But there are pitfalls with that too.

If you wanted to take the capitalist element out of it you'd be left with state run propoganda. Then you wouldn't even be able to see more than one side to a story.
 
I'm a centrist that leans moderately to the left on most things.

I try to watch all news/media outlets from CNN to FOX, BBC to SKY, Young Turks to Crowder.

They all have an agenda but I try my best to see through the lies and get the small nuggets of truth.
 
sweede said:
We can agree on that, and the biggest fool in that mess was the Brits trusting USA and it´s intel. No wonder they were kind of negative when a republican president in the shape of Trump was visiting.

I agree with you, when we have all our modern tools, we should use them. But it is also time consuming and we have got to a point where we are questioning anything and everything. Do you think that is a good development?

Sniper, could you give me some examples of good news you use in your daily life?
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I think questioning everything is important not only for ourselves, but to help the people who blindly trust their chosen source understand what they are watching/reading. The bias' are so subtle that anyone who questions them is made to look like a crazy conspiracy theorist. Which news source is the best? I dont have a good answer. You can get your news anywhere, but you have to understand and see through the slant your source wants you to see. "Reading multiple outlets" is a canned answer, but it really is the best. And then, on top of that, us common people talking about the stories like we do on this forum is just as important.
 
sniper said:
I think questioning everything is important not only for ourselves, but to help the people who blindly trust their chosen source understand what they are watching/reading. The bias' are so subtle that anyone who questions them is made to look like a crazy conspiracy theorist. Which news source is the best? I dont have a good answer. You can get your news anywhere, but you have to understand and see through the slant your source wants you to see. "Reading multiple outlets" is a canned answer, but it really is the best. And then, on top of that, us common people talking about the stories like we do on this forum is just as important.
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For 95% of the population, blind trust of relatively reliable sources is, in fact, a MUCH better guide to truth than selective skepticism of the same sources. It would be great if everyone were as smart and consistently rational as they think they are and had access to original sources and the time to do the work of discovering relevant facts themselves, but that's simply not the world we live in.

The current pattern for most WRers at least is, "when the MSM reports something that is good for my tribe, it's accurate; when it reports something I don't like, it's probably lying, and Breitbart or Prison Planet are more accurate."
 
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Jack V Savage said:
For 95% of the population, blind trust of relatively reliable sources is, in fact, a MUCH better guide to truth than selective skepticism of the same sources. It would be great if everyone was as smart and consistently rational as they think they are and had access to original sources and the time to do the work of discovering relevant facts themselves, but that's simply not the world we live in.

The current pattern for most WRers at least is, "when the MSM reports something that is good for my tribe, it's accurate; when it reports something I don't like, it's probably lying, and Breitbart or Prison Planet are more accurate."
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I agree for the most part. Time is the ultimate thing at play, IMO. Who has time to do all that work? Which is why we should question things. It's about us, and how we read things, rather than who reports it. We should be looking out for each other.
 
I only trust Infowars, random YouTube videos, and 4 chan memes.

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I've pretty much boycotted almost all forms of western media for 3 years now and am better for it.

I don't watch news channels, and I also don't watch any Hollywood movies either, none of the MCU films, no TV shows, nothing for the last 3 years.

The news shows are often blatant lies, and don't even cover the biggest global stories, its 1000% propaganda.

As for the entertainment side, personally as an Asian, I don't really like how we're represented on western media in hollywood so I don't watch, I put my money where my mouth is. The effects of this has been mostly positive, I care less about things like social status now and view people less sterotypically. I noticed the types that fall for stereotypes more often consume more mainstream media.

I plan on continuing my boycott indefinitely, its possible that I may never consume one hollywood film or western news show for the rest of my life. Thats something that I'm proud of.

I urge others to do the same, don't like it then don't give them money. All of them, not just the ones that play identity politics with you, boycott all of them: fox, cnn, nbc, hollywood, TV shows.
 
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