The Briefing Room
General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: jmyrlefuller on October 23, 2023, 02:27:55 pm
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https://cordcuttersnews.com/americans-lack-of-trust-in-cable-tv-news-is-helping-grow-cord-cutting/?amp=1
by Luke Bouma
October 23, 2023
This week, Gallup released its new survey looking at Amerians’s trust in media. According to that report, only 34% of Americans trust mass media to report the news “fully, accurately, and fairly.
Only 7% of Americans say they have “a great deal” of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% say they have “a fair amount” of trust in the media.
These numbers are horrible news for cable TV companies that have been counting on news and sports to save cable TV. Now though, increasingly, Americans are turning away from newspapers, TV, and radio as they go to free online options for news.
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I'd love to convince my wife to cut the cord, sure would save money.
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I don't trust any Western News services anymore.
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I multisource my news ... TV Cable News is not about "reporting" or "journalism" ... it's about lobbying the public and meek wuss elected officials to advance the agenda of the corporate media masters.
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I multisource my news ... TV Cable News is not about "reporting" or "journalism" ... it's about lobbying the public and meek wuss elected officials to advance the agenda of the corporate media masters.
Me too. Yeah some of it gets pretty out there. I can sift thru it and agree with what holds water. Just want to be informed.
And lately alot of 'out there' stuff has come true which is why I look at a wide field of information.
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Me too. Yeah some of it gets pretty out there. I can sift thru it and agree with what holds water. Just want to be informed.
And lately alot of 'out there' stuff has come true which is why I look at a wide field of information.
Most mass media 'news' is just a flare to tell me what I should dig into on my own, realizing that every source has its bias. COVID taught me that there are ample people who claim to be scientists who play fast and loose with their methodology, so I want to read the journal article and assess their findings myself.
Sometimes, even the most improbable findings have merit,if you are willing to follow the lead far enough. FOr example, when CNN and others made fun of Trump talking about sunlight and disinfectants against COVID, it turns out that pre-pill form antibiotics (1940s), piping UV into a vein for limited exposure of the blood to the UV was a method of killing off pathogens and helping the body build antibodies ("sunlight"), while inhalation of nebulized dilute Hydrogen Peroxide was an effective killer of respiratory pathogens as well. Despite the rancor and mockery, there was something to both. The research was there, in the NIH library, for any who stopped ridiculing long enough to read it, but that was not the goal of the media which were attacking the messenger rather than looking at the message. It was imminently clear that panic was the goal of the mass media, not an answer to the problem.
As for Cable news, that has been gone from this household for over a year. I don't need the parroted repetition of buzzwords and catchphrases, from multiple sources, at a minimum of twice on the hour. That's indoctrination, not news.
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Oh...I totally trust them. After all, it's fake but accurate isn't it?
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(https://i.postimg.cc/WbWhrbrG/CBS-Dan-Rather-Fake-Documents.jpg)
Fake but accurate.... Fake but accurate.... Fake but accurate.... Must hold the line.
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The last time i trusted any broadcast news this guy was reading it (https://i.imgur.com/6xR3Yqz.jpg)
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The last time i trusted any broadcast news this guy was reading it (https://i.imgur.com/6xR3Yqz.jpg)
RIP, George Putnam.
I was able to get acquainted with him through his radio show in the last few years of his life. A very astute man.
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RIP, George Putnam.
I was able to get acquainted with him through his radio show in the last few years of his life. A very astute man.
A rare breed, he of course had strong opinions but unlike other 'newsmen' he didn't insert them into the news he waited for his segment he called 'one reporters opinion'. I miss that kind of journalism, the real kind not this current crap that is so colored by the supposed reporters personal opinion that it's useless.
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bookmark
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Cable tv news didn't have anything to do with it (I watch NO "news" on tv of any kind), but I just signed up for 1gig fiber yesterday. To be installed on Halloween.
Looking to "cut that cable" here and also save about 90 per month on the bill... at least for now.