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[Bullitt]

Why are you complaining about tv news, when a vast majority of non-local news consumption is through the internet now? The public has vast resources available through the internet and can get a wide variety of viewpoints and reporting on the same subject. CNN has "ireports" where private individuals do their own reporting and upload it to the website for example. This is completely independent from the corporate CNN structure that determines what is presented every day.

CNN even showcases every now and then articles from a news organization called VBS.TV, which you should check out sometime. They do very good independent reporting on a wide variety of topics from Pakistan weapons manufacturing to wildfires in Oregon. And that's just CNN.com. Point being, the American people have at their fingertips a much broader and multi-faceted wealth of information about the world than you seem to think, since you're so stuck on this tv news brainwashing thing.

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Originally Posted by Bullitt

Why are you complaining about tv news, when a vast majority of non-local news consumption is through the internet now? The public has vast resources available through the internet and can get a wide variety of viewpoints and reporting on the same subject. CNN has "ireports" where private individuals do their own reporting and upload it to the website for example. This is completely independent from the corporate CNN structure that determines what is presented every day.

CNN even showcases every now and then articles from a news organization called VBS.TV, which you should check out sometime. They do very good independent reporting on a wide variety of topics from Pakistan weapons manufacturing to wildfires in Oregon. And that's just CNN.com. Point being, the American people have at their fingertips a much broader and multi-faceted wealth of information about the world than you seem to think, since you're so stuck on this tv news brainwashing thing.

It's kind of funny that you mention cnn, cause i remember working the day of the G-20 summit, and looking at cnn.com on a few occasion's to see what the headlines were.
top 2 headlines were non g-20 summit issues.
the third was something about some stupid celebrity romance issue, and 4th something irrelevant.

When they finally did mention it, this was the link
:http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americ...sts/index.html

If you read whats written, its truly absurd.
I guess you'd have to have been there to grasp how insane whats written there on cnn.com

[Bullitt]

I only mentioned CNN because they offer some very good alternative, independent news sources in addition to their own corporate news structure/formating. Which again was my point: that there are a large number of different ways that people get their news information, even from traditional, established news outlets and corporations. In light of that, I think it is knee-jerk to say that people have been "brainwashed" by major media.