Re:What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan?
by jjeaff on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:23PM
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I'm not sure that's really case. I find that few people think much more deeply about policy issues than the headlines and zingers from pundits like Shawn Hannity or Rachel Maddow.
We have a serious information problem, or lack thereof.
If people were truly informed on some of the issues, I can't imagine soany issues would be so divisive.
I think setting up some kind of reporting requirents to divorce opinion and pundits from actual journalistic news would be a start.
A perfect example is the turmoil inside the fox news network right now. If you watch the actual newscasters/journalists you will believe the obvious truth that Trump was ordering funds withheld to get negative press for the Democrats and Bidens from Ukraine. (Whether that rises to impeachment level is up for debate and tangential to my point).
If you watch only the fox news pundits (which are most of the primetime lineup) you will believe that it's all totally made up and even that the impeachment process itself is somehow unconstitutional and some sort of coop. Which is just completely divorced from reality.
This same thing plays out everyday on countless issues on both sides and is being controlled by a small handful of powerful people that are manipulating viewers for their own gain.
We have a serious information problem, or lack thereof.
If people were truly informed on some of the issues, I can't imagine soany issues would be so divisive.
I think setting up some kind of reporting requirents to divorce opinion and pundits from actual journalistic news would be a start.
A perfect example is the turmoil inside the fox news network right now. If you watch the actual newscasters/journalists you will believe the obvious truth that Trump was ordering funds withheld to get negative press for the Democrats and Bidens from Ukraine. (Whether that rises to impeachment level is up for debate and tangential to my point).
If you watch only the fox news pundits (which are most of the primetime lineup) you will believe that it's all totally made up and even that the impeachment process itself is somehow unconstitutional and some sort of coop. Which is just completely divorced from reality.
This same thing plays out everyday on countless issues on both sides and is being controlled by a small handful of powerful people that are manipulating viewers for their own gain.