Posted on 10/23/2016 9:16:07 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
Should Americans trust the news media?
No, they are Left wing activists (65%)
Yes, they are completely objective (25%)
No, the cooperate media are right wing (10%)
Perhaps we need to admit that there are now four branches of Government
Executive - led by a left wing activist
Legislative - led by elitist GOP globalists
Judicial - led by left wing activist
Media - controlled throughout by left wing activists
which spells RIGGED!
10) Fortune cookies
9) The writing on a bathroom wall
8) Magic chicken bones
7) The Oracle at Delphi
6) Tarot cards
5) A lady at the salon ...
4) "The voices"
3) Crazy Eddy's Used Cars
2) Rumors that whirl like autumn leaves.
1) Your cube-mate's stock tip.
Is the pope Catholic?
With the way the current one has been acting that could be open for debate.
That was my whole point.
Read 1984.
Journalism is negative - “If it bleeds, it leads” and (in any reasonably functional society) “‘Man Bites Dog,’ not ‘Dog Bites Man’” - and journalists know it.Knowing that journalism is negative, journalists claim that all journalists are objective. Trouble is, anyone who thinks that negativity is objective is a cynic. Therefore journalism as we know it is a cynical enterprise. What a coincidence! Socialism is cynicism about society.
There is no reason at all to be surprised that journalists are socialists.
The natural disposition is always to believe . . . The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires . . .
It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
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No, they are Left wing activists (69%)
Yes, they are completely objective (22%)
No, the cooperate media are right wing (9%)
No, they are Left wing activists (69%)
Yes, they are completely objective (22%)
No, the cooperate media are right wing (9%)
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Yes, they are completely objective (22%)
No, the cooperate media are right wing (9%)
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However, I find it difficult to attribute much credibility to a "news" website whose staff can't even spell "corporate" on something static -- and as important as a poll question...
At 10:30pm EDT:
No, they are Left wing activists (69%)
Yes, they are completely objective (22%)
No, the corporate media are right wing (9%)
Read more: http://www.headlineoftheday.com/#ixzz4NxyGhR3X
Got it. Day late but poll is still up.
Results as of Monday morning, 8:30 AM, PST:
NO, THEY ARE LEFT WING ACTIVISTS (70%)
YES, THEY ARE COMPLETELY OBJECTIVE (21%)
NO, THE CORPORATE MEDIA ARE RIGHT WING (9%)
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