American News Is A Joke - Topic

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Apr 9 2015 01:11pm

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Apr 9 2015 03:03pm)

...so here's what you should do

...get some dark shoe polish and do yourself up in blackface...make a picket sign that says -

NO JUSTICE - NO PEACE - NO AMERICAN MILITARY JETS OVER CANADA

...have yourself a swell time at your protest march .

typical unintelligent old man, when you're proven wrong you resort to petty insults.

Get out of here

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Apr 10 2015 04:25am

Refreshing take.

On topic though I haven't watched American news regularly since '07 and really doubt I'll ever watch it again. I don't watch any news period nor do I read about anything, really. The ignorance I have of the world around me astounds me at times lol.

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Apr 10 2015 04:45am

Quote (Kamahl16 @ Apr 10 2015 06:25am)

Sometimes I watch it just to hear what they are trying to bullshit us with this time.

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Apr 10 2015 05:05am

Quote (Kamahl16 @ Apr 10 2015 05:25am)

News isn't usually that important with obvious exceptions.

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Apr 10 2015 08:28am

Quote (bitg_pj @ Apr 9 2015 01:58pm)

And BEFORE that?

Why do we not treat a police officers story with the same skepticism that we would any other persons?

Just because he wrote a report doesn't make it a fact....if that Video HADN'T been videotaped, you'd just believe what the report says as 100% fact and never question it

We do bitg_pj, we just don't approach the situation with your "guilty unless proven innocent" mentality.

As soon as any evidence suggested overreach every news station was on it.

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Apr 10 2015 09:22am

There are 1500 newspapers, 1100 magazines, 9000 radio stations, 1500 TV stations, 2400 publishers ...

& they are all owned by six corporations.

GE, who owns Comcast, NBC, Universal pictures & focus features

News Corp who owns FOX, Wall Street journal, New York post

Disney, who owns ESPN, Pixar, ABC, Marvel studios, MiraMax

Viacom, who owns MTV, NickJr, BET, CMT, paramount studios

Time Warner, who owns HBO, CNN, Time, Warner Bros

CBS, who owns showtime, 60 minutes,

What'd you expect

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Apr 10 2015 09:37am

http://www.thenation.com/

http://www.reuters.com/news/world

http://www.aljazeera.com/

not perfect but pretty good news pj

tv news is a joke I watch the local news during football season but that's about all for tv.

I do catch aljazeera channel once in a while and it's ok.

but really network news is as bad as cable news is..

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Apr 10 2015 09:46am

I refuse to watch any news program that doesn't have a foreign anchor, because Americans have an agenda and the rest of the world is objective.

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