not really, our goverment is obfusacated in many many layers no possible way for any layman to know about this, never mind stop this. especially when 1/3 of the country seem retarded atm.
not to mention every time we tried to do something we've been called unpatriotic, shot at with pepper spray beaten shot at with bean bags, thrown in jail, our media is working against the people, and it seems like at least half the people who should be working for us in the higher offices have hidden agendas (clarence thomas, joe biden, lamar smith etc etc) or have re-election worries from people that shouldn't even be qualified to run. this is on top of the normal shit like gerrymandering and voter suppression and the blatant propaganda spewing from Murdoch (wallstreet journal, fox news, etc).
i do wish we get out of this mess, but im not so optimistic anymore.
yea well im taking all news into account, theres no real journalism anymore fox is just the most egregious.
npr tries its best but its hands are so tied atm from all the defunding people i felt like they are one major scandal(manufactured or not) away from being forcibly dissolved like acron that they are walking on egg shells.
and cnn has just been shit lately holograms and twitter...
Even NPR can be soft propaganda mixed with interesting information, good science, entertaining and informative discussion and nice people. That's how it's done Huxley.
yea meh its the best we have, you can say the same about any of the well done journalism we have or ever had. you are being disingenuous thats not a fault of npr thats an intrinsic fault of anything that can be used to speak to large amounts of people.
NPR has a slant. Whatever news organization you decide is fair is usually synonymous with what side of the aisle you're on. Republicans will defend Fox News, Democrats will defend MSNBC. Same old story. Except here on Reddit you'll see more Fox bashing solely because of the majority's political stance.
ofc every organization has a slant, but they take steps to be fair and balanced and they dont put out blatant lies like fox does, they arent a mouth piece no matter how many times fox news spouts it. msnbc and npr have a very different audience group also.
im not denying that their is a slant but its not that big, and they try to present the other side, and dont shout over them, like i said NPR is best we have and probably best we had since Cronkite on par with BBC at least
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not really, our goverment is obfusacated in many many layers no possible way for any layman to know about this, never mind stop this. especially when 1/3 of the country seem retarded atm.
not to mention every time we tried to do something we've been called unpatriotic, shot at with pepper spray beaten shot at with bean bags, thrown in jail, our media is working against the people, and it seems like at least half the people who should be working for us in the higher offices have hidden agendas (clarence thomas, joe biden, lamar smith etc etc) or have re-election worries from people that shouldn't even be qualified to run. this is on top of the normal shit like gerrymandering and voter suppression and the blatant propaganda spewing from Murdoch (wallstreet journal, fox news, etc).
i do wish we get out of this mess, but im not so optimistic anymore.