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   He-Manatee said, 4 months ago

   Yup. Mr. Briscoe pretty much nailed the gist of American politics.

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   cdward said, 4 months ago

   He-Manatee, I agree. That’s us. Not very pretty, is it?

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   dwyant said, 4 months ago

   As you know, stupid people resort to this when they lack the brains to say the right things.

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   believecommonsense said, 4 months ago

   oh a transcript from Faux News

   (actually it’s quite funny and all too true. One label flung after another is the opposite of civil discourse.)

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   Kylop said, 4 months ago

   Dwyant- priceless

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   nomad2112 said, 4 months ago

   Sigh …

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   churchillwasright said, 4 months ago

   BCS: I thought Fox News was the media arm of the Rep party where there is no viewpoint from the left allowed?

   I think I’ll stick to watching PMSNBC where I can watch a bunch of lefties sitting on a panel agreeing with each other./sarc off

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   parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

   reminds me of old old saturday night live with dan akroyd and jane curtain.

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   believecommonsense said, 4 months ago

   church, speaking in labels and gratuitous one-liners with no substance attached is Faux News special talent. As is their habit of spouting things without ever attributing it to a source.

   park yep, does remind one of dan and jane

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    churchillwasright said, 4 months ago

    BCS: You’re giving me a shiver down my leg.

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    believecommonsense said, 4 months ago

    shake it off before it spreads

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    HOWGOZIT said, 4 months ago

    You are way off base BCS concerning news coverage.

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    believecommonsense said, 4 months ago

    With the death of Walter Cronkite, an American icon, it seems appropriate to note the passing of a time when broadcast news meant reporting and not performing. Digging in and finding out the fundamentals of a story: Who, What, When, and Why. Reporting, not speculating; getting the facts straight, not passing along rumors bantered among insiders.

    Watching Cronkite in his long career made me realize how valuable it was to be have a shared experience of significant events as a nation.

    And that’s the way it was.

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    David said, 4 months ago

    Walter Cronkite was a real journalist..a real fact seeker.

    You get journalists now days that are so sucked up in their own idealogical bias that they have reduced themselves from actual journalists to political cheerleaders.

    This is a great capture of American politics at work. To them, it is of utmost importance to be correct in their own eyes than to acutally accomplish anything for the good of this country.

    Our politicians have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that these are their highest priorities:

    
    
    1. Get more Money
    
    
    2. Get more Power
    
    
    3. Demonize their opponents.
    
    

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    churchillwasright said, 4 months ago

    His death is also a reminder that not long ago, national news was only a 15 minute report. Hard to fathom in an age of 24/7. (Sidenote: when Carson debuted, his show was 1:45; the first 15 minutes was a sort of “warm up” until the parts of the country that actually had another 15 minutes of local news would join them in progress.)

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    cdward said, 4 months ago

    I suspect journalists themselves would love to spend more energy and resources on actual reporting. However, their corporate owners find reality shows make more money, so they cut news budgets which means actual reporting. Instead, they go for easy (scandal) stories that don’t require much depth, and then they beat them into the ground.

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    Gladius said, 4 months ago

    Despite the various insults thrown back and forth, most of us, here, are willing to invest a fair bit of time looking into the issues. Most Americans seem to have little interest in anything that requires real effort to understand. Therefore, our news is presented as partisan, simplified pap. It sells. There are excellent sources of well researched and involved news articles. These aren’t, however, extremely popular.