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Originally posted by Homedawg
reply to post by Southern Guardian
"The Media" isnt objective but is being controlled and "fed" what to say....if it was open and honest id have no problem with it at all...if it was truthful it would be great to have....as it is,its controlled by special interest or the "White" house...bah...scumbags,all of them
Originally posted by Wookiep
I'm sorry but when it comes to the media, I disagree 100%. Any organization that is trying to get "news" out to the people of the world should get that news out with complete accuracy and truth.
False advertising is illegal, why should it be any different when it comes to false reporting?
Originally posted by Tachalka
I don't believe for one second that the MSM report the news 'as they see fit'. I believe they are told exactly what to report and how they should report it.
Peace.
Originally posted by Wookiep
reply to post by Southern Guardian
I think there should be strict guidelines that protect citizens against trickery and propaganda yes, absolutely. It's pretty simple, not sure why you would advocate false news, but whatever.
ETA: Your social internet media example does not work. We're talking about established and already regulated "professional" media outlets.
False advertising is illegal, why should it be any different when it comes to false reporting? Are you seriously saying that people need to just accept the lies as if it's "no big deal"? That's your idea of "freedom"? To have the general public be tricked and lied to? Please. Good luck with that.
I cannot understand how people can call for legal action because a private media group decided to mislead, or be bias, or missed out something that may be important to viewers.
I spend a considerable amount of my time on this forum attacking numerous media sources and blogs because of their political agenda, but never once did I even think of stripping the right to report the way they like. I don't think anybody has that right.
We have to respect freedoms in the media, even when we do not necessarily agree with what they're saying.
Some people may argue further about media groups incorrectly attacking individual people, private citizens? What about defamation?
I cannot for the life of me understand how anybody could argue and insist upon liberty, but would then turn around and call for those fundamental freedoms to be stripped from media groups.
So, in essence, our media is already controlled and there is little or no freedom of the press.
Originally posted by PhysicsAdept
Can you really not understand? Sigh... So if I was the news and I told you that radiation in our water supply was good for you, would you be satisfied with their freedom to mislead??
Political agendas are opinions, but if you feel like a reliable news source is only reporting one side of the story and promoting someone only because of their popularity within a corrupted government... why wouldn't you say something? Not everyone has the ability to sort out that kind of information from truth, and you would just let people be brainwashed because of your opinion that the news should be allowed to be as corrupt and deceitful as they wish?
How is that fair, when the news wouldn't even let another viewpoint to be expressed without shutting it down immediately?
What about it? Don't tell me that you find slander is acceptable when it is extremely unlikely that the news source will bring the person defamed into the studio to talk to the audience! How does that make any sense? I thought free speech had some sort of responsibility to it?
Though there may be a tiny grain of truth in what you are saying, the part that bugs me is that media will often sell something to you as "proof". They will tell you their beliefs and opinions, or tell people what they are forced to say, whatever, but they will not tell you when it's an opinion or provide any objective information that leads to a different, plausible answer. It is right that everyone should have freedom to speech, but everyone has to have a responsibility to it as well.