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Old 08-18-2010, 09:35 AM   #15 (permalink)
ASU2003
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Originally Posted by Lake Rolf View Post
You know if you took Fox News for what it is. (The other side of our poltical coin) and stopped trying to demonize it...so that you can rationalize your irrational fear of hearing what the other side is saying.....you might find that....on occasion....you agree with Fox News.
I, nor anyone else brought Fox News into this thread until your post. They do this too, don't get me wrong, but they pick and report on news stories in order to direct the way people feel about an issue (or to reinforce it and make them think a lot of other people think the same way). But this thread is about reporting on stupid filler stories that in a week will make no difference in 99.99% of their viewers lives, but will effect their psychology. They cover jobs, home foreclosures, terrorism, shootings, and other things that make people fearful of everyone else, and not able to go outside and enjoy their lives without thinking that someone is going to kill them while walking the street But they miss the big news stories that the average American doesn't care about (Third world poverty, human trafficking, outsourcing factories to get around regulations, monopolistic practices, national debt and how to fix it, commodity price manipulations, oil and coal business practices, lobbying, and a bunch of other things that might be actually effecting your life, but you don't know about it.)

Let's take today, some Mom killed 2 kids and attempted to make it look like an accident. I could care less if I ever heard about that. That isn't news. But, what will I think the next time something like this happens? Will the media cause us to jump to conclusions in order to gain more viewers and uncover 'the truth'? Or should the police do their job and investigate things in a legal, fair manner where people are innocent until proven guilty?

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