XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
From: pothead@snakebite.com
On 2025-12-24, Governor Swill wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:07:48 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom
> wrote:
>
>>Governor Swill wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:
>>
>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:12:26 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:
>>>
>>>>And that is the problem with polls in general. People are ignorant to the
>>>>specifics and are not told the entire picture.
>>>
>>> But they vote anyway. It's no wonder the country is in such a mess.
>>> The voters are deliberately ignorant.
>>
>>Well, also they are subject to a torrent of lies, gaslighting, and
>>fear-mongering, mostly uncorrected by the mainstream media (e.g.
>>Fox News).
>
> All of which could be negated by doing a bit of Internet checking of
> the facts.
Actually that is what seems to be happening as viewership is way down for
the legacy media. Younger folks get their news from the net which IMHO is
a good thing because you can literally hear all sides in a short time vs
watching say Fox and hear all right wing or MSNow and hear all left wing.
> I used "deliberately" um, deliberately. The accept news that's
> *emotionally* satisfying but make a point of not checking the facts
> because that might reduce their emotional satisfaction.
IMHO the legacy news media have evolved into entertainment, commentary shows
with news
sprinkled in between to set up the commentary segments. And for many viewers
the line between the two is blurred.
The legacy media really needs to reinvent themselves and get back to reporting
the facts and not dwelling on public interest stories as much or starting up
the spin machine.
--
pothead
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views,
but then are shocked and offended to discover that there
are other views.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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