The mainstream media
By freemanjamie
@freemanjamie (6)
May 5, 2011 3:32pm CST
So, i wanted to start this discussion of, partly because of my own views and beliefs, and facts i have seen, do you trust the media? Is the media something you follow day by day and take for truth without question? Do you rely on the media, and do you take their word on what they say, without a doubt that it could be a lie? I'd like to get your views about this, i then would like to expand this discussion in showing you how i personally believe how the mainstream media do lie, and control the population to how they want them to be, how they want them to think, feel and react. So, please go ahead, and let me know your views on the mainstream media!
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@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
6 May 11
You need some experience with reading the msm in order to learn which ones to trust and which to research. Just because one claims to be so fair and balanced does not mean that this is so. I read news stories from different sources, check out the comments and follow links to other views of the same story. Then I form my own opinion. Most of the news agencies have their own agenda when they are spinning. That's where your experience comes in. Know which ones are blatantly biased vs those that are more blatantly biased. 
I have yet to find one that just gives the facts without a spin.
I have yet to find one that just gives the facts without a spin.
@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
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5 May 11
News is an opinion: it's always spun in one direction or another. I believe the underlying events - an earthquake is an earthquake, no matter what anyone says. Wars, celebrations, whatever the news is, the reports at their most fundamental are basically true.
Any opinion, analysis, in-depth investigation or other such expansion on the basics, I take with a pinch of salt. Or a small continent of salt, depending on who the reporter is!
