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Originally Posted by starseed
I dont mind that there is a network that has a conservative bias. There is always going to be people who think that way, and they will always want a network that caters to their way of thinking.
Is it terrible journalism? No it is not. By that I mean, it is not journalism. It is entertainment disguised as journalism. I think this kind of media is very destructive and leads to mistrust and disharmony amongst a population. CNN is just as bad, they rarely report real news anymore. Its just fluff with no hard hitting pieces whatsoever. Sometimes FOX and MSNBC will come up with interesting pieces, but in the interim, you have talking heads yelling at each other just because they think they are right and they love the sound of their own voice.
It is this entertainment masquerading as news that makes the masses jaded and unwilling to do anything about the problems that keep mounting.
This is an example of a left wing show airing a great piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xlqxSRhARU
This is an example of the crap that they love to air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey70lloPceg
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Oh, I have no issue with a conservative news source--it's all about the sponsors and what they'll pay for, so whatever, it's fine.
I just find it hilarious to honestly watch them and see just how incredibly hypocritical they are, while playing along with this guise of being so much holier than thou.
That second link just makes me so damn angry, listening to this guy complain about a party wanting to "bail out welfare cases."
The health care reform isn't about bailing out "welfare cases"--newsflash, the government already takes care of health care for those on welfare. People on welfare pay next to nothing if they need to go to the emergency room, and prescriptions cost them about $1.
But a self-employed person making a decent wage (anything over $25K/year) is paying out the nose for health care. For my parents to get reasonable health care, it'd cost them $1300 a month. And that's not including copays, medications, and anything that would actually go
wrong.
The health care reform is about helping people who actually work and have jobs and can't afford health care because insurance companies are so busy making a profit that they don't care about actually insuring the people who are paying for it.