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AVID Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 06:06 PM
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Why do TV news "journalists" insist on interjecting . . .
subjective opinions during news telecasts? Money? Job security? Opportunity?
Because they can?

Because American Idiots eat it up with a spoon?
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candy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 06:08 PM
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1. The loooove to hear themselves talk----Thank God for the mute button
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 06:09 PM
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2. Because journalism is dead.
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jackster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 06:09 PM
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3. because they are instructed to do so
and paid
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 06:10 PM
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4. they are controlling thought process of the masses
it is an art perfected here in amerika
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drdtroit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 06:14 PM
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6. Exactly, how could people discern what they are seeing
if not for the assistance of the propagandistas?
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justiceischeap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 06:11 PM
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5. While waiting for protest coverage on CS2 this morning
I saw Ted Koppell speaking about this very thing. He said when journalists try to put together thoughtful and insightful news pieces, people tune out in the millions.

FOX has succeeded in dumbing down the nation.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 06:53 PM
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7. Because the media no longer reports the news, it provides infotainment
and propaganda as dictated by their corporate owners.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 07:09 PM
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8. they wish they were sports announcers providing "color"
politics is so boring and unrewarding and dangerous. Better to describe the twins' slutsuits.
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