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Originally Posted by Cowperson
I would also suspect that the common person who gets most of his news on the internet and distrusts mainstream media, as profiled in the survey, likely gets that news from sites that are far more biased than FOX would ever think of being, both on the left and the right.
Consistently, we see surveys revealing the common person tends to gravitate towards news sources we feel provide us with viewpoints we are pre-disposed to agree with.
And we have never lived in an era with access to a greater variety of opinions and sources of information than we do today.
Cowperson
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I think the real problem is that we rely on the media to form opinions on just about anything. At my company whenever we release a quarterly report the media seems to really jump on and magnify issues that have little importance and totally miss what really needs to be taken away (both negative and positive).
The real problem is that the person or people who write the stories, interview people, and then tell the world are probably the ones that know the least about what's going on. You have to actually be in the trenches, on the street and part of what's going on to understand and even then the intellectual or physical bias of the person sinks into the coverage. This is why I take anything that comes from any news source (independent or mainstream) with a grain of salt.