U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by dleslie on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:23PM (#25663473)

Your news is just flat out awful and has been for a long time.

From OANN to Fox to MSNBC; it's all us-vs-them, fear the others, be afraid, be angry, and stay tuned in for more.

Every time I visit your country I'm apalled and horrified by your news media. It's blatantly exploiting basic animal instinct and core emotions to hook viewers in order to sell ads.

You are a product of your media.

And then there's the network effects of Facebook, Twitter and Parlor...

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by colinmhayes on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:21PM (#25664139)

Those aren't the news channels. They're entertainment. The news is on PBS. The times and journal are good if you stay away from the clearly marked opinion section.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by dleslie on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:01PM (#25664654)

I have my qualms with the CBC, but I'll take it over basically any American news media any day.

We have a couple of important institutions that safeguard our news media:

https://cbsc.ca/

https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman/

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by newguy1234 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:09PM (#25663993)

Very true, even media like NPR is very biased as well. I've stopped reading main stream media entirely.

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