Over the last few weeks I have become exasperated with the TV News - ALL OF THEM! I made mention of the drama they crave in another post and it seems to get worse by the day.
The News Media has found gold when digging for their drama with the Internet, sites like Facebook, Twitter etc., give the Media a whole new arena to play in to cultivate drama at it's highest. They have brought all of us into their web and their desperate need to be the ratings king.
The problem I have is that one day their pro, for example, President Obama, the deficit, the economy, health care reform, tax cuts for the middle class, tax increases for the rich and that Wall Street and the Banks should be accountable for the TARP money and their irresponsibility and greed that got us in this mess, and the next day they are against anything that is put out there to help this disaster and they are ripping everyone and everything apart.
Confused? No, I know what is going on and what I agree or disagree with it's not that, it's that instead of reporting the news and keeping their opinions to themselves as reporters they stir the pot and rile everyone up. When I hear one of the hosts ask their political guests what Obama should do or what's your take on this plan, it makes me incredibly angry - like, what do they know??? Even if the guests had one time worked in Washington this is now, not then and the situation is completely different, what worked then may not work now so their contribution to now is basically useless so what is the real point? Ratings
The News Media should not be about changing public opinion, slanting the truth or dramatizing important information. I don't know about everyone else but I would like the News Media to do what the medium was intended to do and that is to report the news exactly the way they get it - this is not Hollywood or the Star magazine and I think the public wants the real deal, to make up their own minds and not have someone else lead them to their way of thinking.
We all have a right to freedom of speech and to air our opinion but the news media is suppose to be unbiased and as hard as they try - they are not!
I would like to hear how you all feel about it.
Thanks for being here.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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