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Originally Posted by theking
BTW...I do not think that government prepared material is any less credible than material gathered by individual media. I take every report with a grain of salt as they are equally incredible...in my opinion. Virtually everyone has an axe to grind and present biased reports...and usually the media's axe is not political but is the color green. The media usually selects stories that they think will attract the most viewers and present those stories in a manner that they think will hold the viewers attention via the biased use of adjectives. I have yet to find an unbiased english language (I only speak or underst and english) news outlet...from any source...origin US or otherwise.
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Look, nobody is saying what the gov't is saying isn't truth or less credible. I completely agree with your assesment of the media above. But that is all beside the point. The gov't cannot get into the media business at all in the manner described in the article or else freedom of speach and a functioning democracy are at serious risk.
Take what is in that article about what the gov't is involved in to an even more involved level in the media and you have the makings of the end of your democracy IMO.