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Tucner Carlson-FIRED
Dan Bongino-GONE
Don Lemon-FIRED

I sense disruption in the force on all sides:eek:
Quite honestly, the only one I liked (and that was on radio) was Dan Bongino-kinda like G Gordon but without the crazy.Kinda validates my decision to go to Netflix for my daily TV fix and as far as news, if it's important enough for me to know-I'm sure someone will come running down the street screaming with terror. other than that screw it!
I pity the majority who have not mastered the art of critical thinking for they are truly screwed.
 
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All sorts of behind the scenes personality clashes that we are not aware of.
"Err America"-remember that ?-had all sorts of internal frictions and infighting that contributed to its early demise.
 
One of the major issues with legacy media is that their content is pretty much driven by the miniscule attention span of most people these days. Gotta have that BIG story even if you're just blathering nonsense in the face of no information. And, of course, the editorial slant.

Every once in awhile, I used to visit Der Speigel's english site and read up on what the Germans think and what was going on there and did likewise with debka dot.com to see what was going on in the Middle East and the Israeli viewpoint. I quit reading Der Speigel after trying to read the home edition a couple of times and then switching to the english site. I still grasped enough German to realize that there were often very interesting stories for the home folks and no mention whatever of same for those outside the fatherland.

And yes, some of the "personalities" on the tube behave like small, spoiled children when off camera. Occasionally on camera, due in part to failing to start brain before engaging tongue clutch. Sometimes the adults-if there are any in the room-have had enough.
 
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SMSgt said:
I dumped all the networks long ago. I watch mostly just the local news that to fill the hour and a half covers all the national news as well. Seems much less biased than the big networks. Still, all is taken with a grain of salt.
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The locals around here are just as biased as the networks they are affiliated with, but they keep their biases confined to local issues.

I wish the news would go back to the good ol' Cronkite, Huntly and Brinkley days. Just give us the facts without injecting your own political slant.
 
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I wish the news would go back to the good ol' Cronkite, Huntly and Brinkley days. Just give us the facts without injecting your own political slant.
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Yeah, right up until ol Walter decided the Vietnam War was bad. I'm not taking a position pro or con on that issue, but as a newsperson on the air, he should have kept his mouth shut. If he wanted to voice his own opinion on his own time, people would have come a-running to hear it.

Thinking back, wonder if he cleared that with management and got approval? Shifts the blame, but doesn't excuse the practice.
 
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It may not be a coincidence that lemon and Carlson were let go at pretty much the same time. cnn has been attempting to transform itself from round the clock Pres Trump bashing, and FOX got burned in court. Agree the business model may be changing, hopefully for the better.

Realistically am not expecting an "unbiased" viewpoint, but when i listen to the Pres actually talking followed by a "news" person's instantaneously translated version that completely changes the meaning, am disgusted.

No matter what bias you have, the only way to a balanced viewpoint is watching/reading multiple news sources with differing "bias". That and they cover news the other won't present.

It has gotten pretty easy to spot opinions gotten from cell phones, as the information presented on them must be brief by design. And it is too difficult to page down while driving or participating in other activities.

As someone keeps saying, "In before the lock", or some such.
 
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I gave up on news years ago as I figured out then it is mostly propaganda. Local stations are just as bad. They are controlled by conglomerates. There is a You Tube video of local news anchors doing a spiel about misinformation. Theses people are from all over the country and they are reading the exact same words. One of my local stations is on the video. How can one have any trust when these people are obviously being controlled by forces far beyond the local sphere. They read what they are told to read and act like it is a local origin.
 
SMSgt said:
I dumped all the networks long ago. I watch mostly just the local news ...
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As biased as any "network." I put on the local station @ 21 or 51 after the hour, watch the weather and switch off by :24 or :54. The drivel is crazy making and I produce an adequate supply domestically. Joe
 
zeke said:
It may not be a coincidence that lemon and Carlson were let go at pretty much the same time. cnn has been attempting to transform itself from round the clock Pres Trump bashing, and FOX got burned in court. Agree the business model may be changing, hopefully for the better.

Realistically am not expecting an "unbiased" viewpoint, but when i listen to the Pres actually talking followed by a "news" person's instantaneously translated version that completely changes the meaning, am disgusted.

No matter what bias you have, the only way to a balanced viewpoint is watching/reading multiple news sources with differing "bias". That and they cover news the other won't present.

It has gotten pretty easy to spot opinions gotten from cell phones, as the information presented on them must be brief by design. And it is too difficult to page down while driving or participating in other activities.

As someone keeps saying, "In before the lock", or some such.
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Fox did not get really burned that bad. I read an interesting article the other day in the Wall Street Journal. They get to write the cost of the settlement off.

So you know who pays???:mad::(
 
WR Moore said:
I quit reading Der Speigel after trying to read the home edition a couple of times and then switching to the english site. I still grasped enough German to realize that there were often very interesting stories for the home folks and no mention whatever of same for those outside the fatherland.
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The BBC news website is similar, although you can read most UK stories fairly easily except for the BBC's coverage of UK politics. That became somewhat hidden a few years back, maybe because it is thought that foreigners cannot grasp the subtleties of the UK parliamentary system. I was born and raised there and even I only have half a clue, so maybe they are right.

Of course, one of the biggest drivers for overseas news websites to tailor their content to the US is advertising. As ever, follow the money.
 
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