Wasn't the news always skewed? That's what my college educated son asked me.

[JAYJDF]

We were having a talk about politics and I was expressing how Faux News was just touting the administrations view.
He asked, isn't that the way it's always been.
He's 30 years old, educated, good job, nice start on a family.
I told him that it wasn't always like this, as I threw out a couple of old timer news names.
I said he only thinks it's always been like that because it's been fixed for the last 6 years, about the length of time he really paid attention to life and the world.

I would think that he would be a typical 30 year old.
So I'm guessing that generation doesn't know any better.
They have been fed lies as truths for most of their adult life.

We need to keep talking to them and showing them "the light" of truth.
Amazingly, he doesn't even watch The Daily Show, as I found this out by repeating some of the satire Jon uses to make his points.

Oh well, never give up, never surrender.

[izzie]

1. I think it has always been this way and your picked what you read.

TV all day makes it seem in your face more. In our home we read papers that were in the GOP line as I can recall my father saying it. He would also say that the Dem. read the Record, a Boston newspaper, which he said was hardly a news paper. We also had to be still and hear the evening news even when it was only on the radio. When we had to bring in news items to school, I had to use the Wall St. J.

[murielm99]

2. I think if it was, we knew it was.

When I was growing up, we had several daily papers in my house, a local weekly paper and my dad's union paper.

The reason we had so many was that he was a railroader. People would leave the papers all over the train and the station. He would bring home a Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Chicago's American and a Sun-times every day. The most fun would be when he would bring home a paper from someplace like New York, D.C., or San Francisco. I started reading the Daily News the most, because of its narrative style. It read like an unfolding drama. I read the Sun-Times next to the most after that, because of the convenient size.

I was young when I started doing that, but I could tell the difference in types of coverage, stories picked and slant. Also, my dad yelled a lot about the repuke bias in the Tribune.

These days, people do not understand the difference between propaganda and reporting. Some of it is education, some of it is deliberate on the part of the corporate media.

As they were growing up, I taught my kids to see point of view and bias in broadcast and print journalism. I hope everyone here is trying to do that.

[izzie]

4. We also had many papers that came in every day and some weekly

My whole family were in the GOP and I never knew of one as a child that voted for FDR. He was always my President as I was born in 34 and I frankly thought he was a great man. Course Maine was a GOP state for years. I just think newspapers have always been with one side or the other. They pushed the news that the people who paid for the ads and bought the paper wanted. People who watch Fox want that news and I do not think you can do a thing about it. They should look around but that is lack of a open minded education more than anything else.

[depakid]

3. "that generation doesn't know any better."

No, they don't.

If they did- if they knew what it was like when there hour long commercials (infomertials) weren't allowed on TV- back when there were regulations like the Fairness Doctrine and Equal Time Provisions, they'd want that back in a heartbeat.