HI Ross,

On Thu 2037-Aug-20 22:30, Ross Sauer (1:123/789) wrote to Richard Webb:



 JF>> party hacks to  gobble up.  If you want to get good insights into
 JF>> controversial issues, you have to go to the right, see what they're
 JF>> not telling you, to the  left and see what they're not telling you
 JF>> and in some cases to foreign  news outlets.  Half of the time all
 JF>> you can do is get as many facts  together as you can and connect the
 JF>> dots for yourself.

 RW> Would agree, and try to do that.  This sort of so-called
 RW> journalism suits the bean counters that run the newspapers
 RW> and other media outlets well too.  IF we're owned by left
 RW> leaning folks we don't offend them, or their advertisers.
 RW> IF we're to the right, we don't offend either.  REal
 RW> journalism might mean that we gore the ox of the big
 RW> advertiser, or not promote the owners' point of view.


RS> When a very tiny minority of loud, obnoxious people monopolize
RS> coverage of town hall meetings, simply because they ARE loud and
RS> obnoxious, it speaks volumes about how supermarket tabloid-like the
RS> news networks have become. 

OF course, and why I don't even bother with television news, as it's the
worst.  I might listen to a variety of news
outlets via radio however, including the bbc, cbc, npr and
various sources from AM radio.

Regards,
           Richard
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