RIP Walter Cronkite

[Xiahou]

Sorry to tell you but that's how it still is nowadays. People watch the type of partisan news (O' Reilly, Obermann) that fits their ideology to comfort themselves and not deal with having to think for themselves or possibly even realize that the opposing side might have some good points as well.

Sorry to tell you, but you're wrong.

People have varied news sources, with the Internet being the most prolific and fastest growing medium. Note- before anyone starts handwringing about unreliable Internet blogs:

Very few Americans (1%) consider blogs their most trusted source of news, or their primary source of news (1%).

From what research I have done, modern news began to turn into what it is now after the removal of the Fairness Doctrine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine) in 1987:

From what research I've done, our news has greatly improved since it's removal. The fact that a solid majority of people are not happy with the current state of journalism speaks volumes to how far we've come from a time when most people were perfectly happy to be fed news from one or a couple sources.

I don't want to drag a memorial thread too far off topic, so I'll leave it here.

RIP Cronkite, but I'm also glad that our news media has evolved beyond the need for a Cronkite.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Sorry to tell you, but you're wrong.

People have varied news sources, with the Internet being the most prolific and fastest growing medium. Note- before anyone starts handwringing about unreliable Internet blogs:

From what research I've done, our news has greatly improved since it's removal. The fact that a solid majority of people are not happy with the current state of journalism speaks volumes to how far we've come from a time when most people were perfectly happy to be fed news from one or a couple sources. To suggest we were better off with less ways to get information is insane.

Link gives error.

When did I say I wanted less ways of getting information? I am just saying I would like less propaganda perpetuated by both sides if selected facts that everyone on the left are baby killing socialists and everyone on the right are war loving fascists.

When I read "varied" news sources like the Huffington Post and the Dredge Report I feel most of the time like I am not closer to the truth of the matter. Which reminds of me a Jefferson quote:

"To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."

I believe at this point television can be used instead of newspaper as well.

The fact that a solid majority of people are not happy with the current state of journalism speaks volumes to how far we've come from a time when most people were perfectly happy to be fed news from one or a couple sources.

So doctrine gets removed ----> People begin to dislike journalism nowadays = Journalism has improved from lack of doctrine?

Maybe it goes like this: doctrine gets removed ----> Internet comes about with raw facts and information now more prevalent then ever = People realize what a sham modern news is nowadays?