The News Media: A Hazardous Product With No Warning Label

[rangerrebew]

December 5, 2018
The News Media: A Hazardous Product With No Warning Label
By Anthony J. DeBlasi

To be most useful, information must be accurate, straight and uncolored. This applies to news reporting as well as to any other form of communication involving the transfer of information, whether it be street directions, how to assemble a knocked-down product, programming a computer, or what-have-you. But with news channels owned by or beholden to corporate media moguls, the information gets to the recipients through filters that lead the public to sponsor-endorsed conclusions and choices. Such doctored information in the news creates a public whose “public opinion” is in fact corporate opinion. This is a corruption of the “democratic process” big time.

Reporting is so bollixed up with comment that it’s hard to distinguish between what is happening and what is being said about what is happening. A large percent of sentences that issue from the mouths of TV anchors contain inferences that don’t even follow from the presented facts. With disturbing regularity I have found myself asking, “Where did he (she) get that from?” The answer is, straight from the editors’ bias. You can bet that they read the doctored script to remain on the payroll.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/the_news_media_a_hazardous_product_with_no_warning_label.html#ixzz5YowD2hLn

[Cyber Liberty]

FTA:

I wonder how many journalists who start off with a genuine desire to inform their readers/viewers about what is happening in the world end up with the job to reform them? The rare ones who enter journalism not for fun or mission-to-change-the-world, but to convey honest, accurate accounts of events, free of personal or editorial bias, face a difficult, uphill fight to remain objective reporters and must ultimately decide to switch careers or give up journalism.   

Every J-School student I ever knew in College was in it to change the world.  Not one wanted to provide honest, uncolored reportage.

[Wingnut]

FTA:
Every J-School student I ever knew in College was in it to change the world.  Not one wanted to provide honest, uncolored reportage.

True.
I lasted one year as a declared Journalism major.  If there was ever a more degenerate group of misfits and and social rejects on campus I have never saw it.  All the females looked like "triggersaurus girl" with pit and leg hair that would stymie a bottle of Nair and chip a safety razor.   And the Dudes.  Oh good lord, the straight ones couldn't get a date if their life depended on it.  One of my Frat brother's saw me in the Student Newspaper office one day and on our walk back to the House he commented: "If anyone of those guys fell into a barrel of titties he would come out sucking his thumb".   

[Cyber Liberty]

True.
I lasted one year as a declared Journalism major.  If there was ever a more degenerate group of misfits and and social rejects on campus I have never saw it.  All the females looked like "triggersaurus girl" with pit and leg hair that would stymie a bottle of Nair and chip a safety razor.   And the Dudes.  Oh good lord, the straight ones couldn't get a date if their life depended on it.  One of my Frat brother's saw me in the Student Newspaper office one day and on our walk back to the House he commented: "If anyone of those guys fell into a barrel of titties he would come out sucking his thumb".

 

There were worse at WMU.  The Psych majors were even more wretched. 

[Smokin Joe]

There were worse at WMU.  The Psych majors were even more wretched.

Half of the psych majors I spoke with as an undergrad (and readily confirmed by one relatively sane one I used to BS with) were there "to get their head together".

We used to guess what chapter the "Abnormal Psychology" class was on by the symptoms the students presented....