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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
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My point is that the news reported to average Joe does not get to the bottom of the story.
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This is true. People might be astonished to find out exactly how lazy current day journalists have become. They get spoon fed stories and content from professional public relation firms in the same way that corporate lawyers draw up governmental legislation.
That said, independent news is still not any better. Go read news rags from the 19th century to see what I mean. Most newspapers back then were truly independent and yet were completely biased spouting crap that had no basis in fact. Journalism has never been about truth. Propaganda and the manipulation of the people is nothing new and dates back to well before the times of the Greek and Roman empires.
Going on and on about the evils of corporations while spouting Chomsky only makes you come across as a second year Communications student.
Learning to receive information in many types of media in a critical manner is vital to understanding truth. I have argued before that our education system should start developing a curriculum that teaches how to receive information via news papers, television and the internet in a critical way. Currently, there still exist people that actually believes that Television and Wikipedia are 100% absolute truth.
... I think I went off topic.