In The News

Some thoughts about today's news as reported by the mainstream mediums. First, I must remark that I sometimes have trouble telling whether a news story that I read or saw is real or merely a spoof of reality. I think we have reached the depths of pondering and checking, using discrimination to ascertain whether what we are informed is real or not. It shouldn't be that way. When society functions normally, the news about what is on going in society should be normal and easy to interpret. That's one reason so many of us today ignore "news" altogether and escape into our own limited world where we fell more secure and in control.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. The problem is they don't. We need not more good or bad news stories, but rather more real ones. Because we are fed pabulum and agenda, instead we run away from it and seek silliness we find in cell phones, computer games, dumb movies and more. Despite the 24 hour news cycle that bombards us, we are less uninformed than we were before the invention of the radio and TV.

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.
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Debate is almost non-existent now, as we spout the propaganda fed to us by whatever view is most trendy. Today few are apparently accountable to anybody, and that is bad "news" for democracy in this country. More information is better than less, but the more has to be real, not the fake news we get in copious volumes today. Much of the fake news we are presented with is actually advertising for an agenda. But few seem to realize they are being tricked into being fake news advocates and real news clue less.

One problem accelerating the death of real news is that everyone is a news reporter. Armed with a cell phone camera and Twitter, the platform is easy to use to promote fake news. Another is the news announcer in our mainstream mediums is often not a newscaster but a celebrity claiming expertise in climate or social justice or some other airy subject that the celebrity has no working knowledge of beyond his or her (mostly uninformed) opinion. We now have sportscasters doing political commentary, disk jockeys promoting a social cause instead of spinning records, talk show hosts talking too much about their views and listening too little at their callers' opinions. And yet most of us listen and accept them all.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. Right now, they are not doing that.