How news is part 2

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

The most important point is to know when they are giving you a report and when they are giving you an opinion.

You can't separate them, every damn report on the news has the reporters reasons why he thinks you should know about this story. He never says two perps robbed a 7-11, and got away in a green Prius. He spends most of the time telling me why I should be cautious of 7-11s late at night, be careful crossing the street because I might get run over by a speeding Prius, my 7-11 stock may go down, but my hoodie stock might go up. Well you know what? I don't need his opinion on any god damned thing, he's a fucking reporter, don't analyze, just report.
Even the fucking weatherman can't tell me there's a storm coming, without telling me it may affect public transportation and school schedules, I should fill my gas tank, and bring in the dog. WTF?

Do you think most people confuse the two? I don't think they do.

Not confuse them, choose to use one when they should be using the other, to intentionally mislead in favor of their bias. If you say illegal alien, they will counter with Mexican to draw attention away from the fact you are talking about criminals and try to make you look racist.