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Originally Posted by schola  Sorry if I jumped to conclusions. You said this, which led me to believe you believe watching the news makes one well-informed.
The American media is one of the worst places you could go to get enlightenment on any issue.
Always remember that they are corporations. They will only talk about things that get them viewers and thus, make money for their advertisers. |
No problem, I should have been more clear. A lot of the T.V watching was because of my father. He is under the impression, the T.V is the only way to connect to the world. At the same time, he says its the opiate for the masses. I use to watch everything from NBC to Fox and the big ones in between thinking it was the only way to get a clear picture. Watch the ones that are the furthest left and right along with the other ones to see everyones point of view. I then realized that even the ones I felt were decent, not nearly what I wanted or the way it should be. I am also getting deeper in my community of Information Security Professionals (Hackers, the real kind, not movie kind) that can sometimes be very strong when it comes to Big Brother, Elitism, the media and so on. There are many stories I read all the time that I wish would be played on the news. At the moment, I get the news and issues from a decently wide array of sources. I do not have a strong online source though. For the most part, some RSS feeds digg.com, and maybe yahoo or CNN but thats about it when it comes to the News or Politics.