It's nice to know that ten years of education and two degrees have made me an idiot news person.
Education does not make a person any less of an idiot. That being said, if you choose to put yourself in the shoes of those I call an idiot news person, go ahead. I didn't. ::shrug::
Media sources do not intentionally warp the news.
Baloney.
Nice news doesn't get viewers. Believe me. It's been tried, many times. Unfortunatley, people want the gross and gory. It gets the ratings. Plain and simple.
Just because that's the way it is doesn't make it right. It also doesn't change the fact that people get a warped view of world affairs because the things being reported on aren't always accurate, or are skewed in the report. I'm not arguing why it's done, just saying it is.
I have worked in newsrooms for the past six years. Until you have as well, and you know EXACTLY how they and the people in them work, don't assume anything. We're just doing our jobs like the rest of the people in this country.
You are the last person that needs to be telling me to not assume things about people. Sheesh.
All in all, I don't take what you, one person immersed in the media industry, has to say about the situation. A) because you are one person, and don't represent the entire news media and B) because you are so entrenched, you aren't going to have any fairer of a view on it than someone who is constantly being misled, as I am. I'm not saying your POV is worthless, just not one I'm gonna put all my trust in. Nothing against you, just the situation. I've seen the news tell the "truth" while skewing it so ridiculously as to create more trouble than should have been. There isn't an argument in the world that will convince me otherwise.
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Education does not make a person any less of an idiot. That being said, if you choose to put yourself in the shoes of those I call an idiot news person, go ahead. I didn't. ::shrug::
Baloney.
Just because that's the way it is doesn't make it right. It also doesn't change the fact that people get a warped view of world affairs because the things being reported on aren't always accurate, or are skewed in the report. I'm not arguing why it's done, just saying it is.
You are the last person that needs to be telling me to not assume things about people. Sheesh.
All in all, I don't take what you, one person immersed in the media industry, has to say about the situation. A) because you are one person, and don't represent the entire news media and B) because you are so entrenched, you aren't going to have any fairer of a view on it than someone who is constantly being misled, as I am. I'm not saying your POV is worthless, just not one I'm gonna put all my trust in. Nothing against you, just the situation. I've seen the news tell the "truth" while skewing it so ridiculously as to create more trouble than should have been. There isn't an argument in the world that will convince me otherwise.