SHOOTING at the OLYMPICS

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Originally Posted by nearmiss

I think right now, this day in time the mainstream media is just an advertisement delivery system. By that, I mean it is not about what they say or report as long as they can keep their customers buying ads.

Maybe more so in the U.S, but that in itself is a sad indictment of the deteroriating quality of your news and reporting since the obligation to give balanced coverage was so foolishly thrown away.

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Youtube and the internet sources are our only really decent prospects for getting viable information. Yes, there are some nut jobs posting, but they are generally easy to ferret out.

It is always your personal thinking that matters to yourself. It is important to think critically and alternatively. Information sources and creditability are frequently overlooked, when we favor the message.

It's all too easy to be completely selective in these circumstances - by only picking the items that agree with what you want to hear. Seems to be what has happened in the US with tv news - it's been turned into a market with stations targetting particular political views.

Newspapers in the UK are like this. Fortunately TV news still has to endeavour to be balanced.

Once a country has no access to news media that can be trusted (or no way of distinguishing who the trustworthy ones are) then democracy is in trouble.

Originally Posted by nearmiss

I can't tell about that, but there are plenty of videos up on the internet that don't mimic your points that are made about gun control in UK. I posted one above.

I agree with ArthurSmedley, that video about the UK guns issue was so biased as to be effectively propaganda. I suspect the reporter knew exactly what she was doing too. Seemed to be stitched up to satisfy a certain agenda for the U.S. audience.