Originally posted by Surtur
Yeah, I was forced to get on the ACA. Also yep: I have no problem with Trump wanting to repeal and replace it or repair it.
Did you purchase private insurance on GetCoveredIllinois.gov or are you on Medicaid?
If you are collecting SSDI, you are either receiving a subsidy for your private insurance or getting free healthcare through Medicaid.
You, more than anyone, should be concerned about what happens to the ACA.
Those of us with group insurance through our employers will be largely unaffected.
Take downs. Ommissions. Exclusions. Special Interest.
I was in a discussion on the coverage of a natural disaster relief effort.
The cameras on national networks were showing american and british aircraft landing with aid.
Friends in Germany & Dubai observed how the images they were seeing (their camera feed) was not being edited to show only fins and wings of selective allied craft.
Friends in Dubai were saying oh wow Country X has sent aid. Their aeroplane is unloading in the landing bay right next to that cargo aeroplane from The U.K. / from The U.S.
Verified by friends watching in Germany.
At the time, MSM were pushing the angle: Country X is Bad.
I have a friend who, in-between her day job was making waves on a national scale.
Absolutely nobody at the company had a clue.
Like: Seriously: No One.
Nobody at the company or at the press office at head office picked up on it.
It woud have been great publicity for the company.
It would also have been strong positive publicity for fem media.
But nothing.
Just one front page headline in one minority weekly.
She led and organised a national protest which got praise from the state police commissioner + had the country's highest ranking police commissioner inviting her to speak at the capital.
This got 0% coverage. Like absolutely zero. On tv, On national Radio, In the daily papers. Zero.
The fem magazines weren't interested.
Just 1 minority report. On a natonal issue.
But when there was a wtflol incident (involving our business premises, (a client and an animal under her care) that got the attention of the local paper and was picked up by every global news agency and reported world wide as an omg-whoaa-wtf-lol news story.
Last year on a major network They had people talking about Trump versus Latinas.
They got 1 latina woman who was pro Trump. When she started to say... "Well actually, for me as a latina, the top 4 issues in this election are... "
And the news anchor was like.. "Thank You >name here< That's all we have time for!"
So I went to look for videos of latin americans talking about why they were voting for Trump.
And I was like: Whoa
As for takedowns. Watch how many times Jeff Bezos's daily rag publishes articles in favor of Trump.
On the rare occasions one gets past the Editor.
Clock how long it stays up before: "The page you were looking for is no longer available."
Cassie Jaye's struggle:
https://twitter.com/Cassie_Jaye/status/833752643243692032
https://twitter.com/Cassie_Jaye/status/832333061194911744
Take Downs. Ommissions. Exclusions. Special Interest.
All this fake news stuff is a diversion.
Oh Btw Surtur:
Hi.
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
sure whirly was trolling, but he brought up a question which crosses my mind often. do you have a job, surt? a bit of a derailment, i admit. however since the topic is just more purely hypocritical whiney nonsense, i kinda feel justified in asking.
Come on, man. Why would you take hypocritical potshots like this at someone just because you have political disagreements?
Originally posted by BackFire
I think the biggest issue arises from the proliferation of the 24 hour news networks, and thus the 24 hour news cycle that now exists. The three big news stations all must cover something over the course of a day, even if there isn't anything particularly important or news worthy going on, and so you see them exaggerating stories constantly and talking about relatively unimportant things for hours and hours. You see constant "breaking news" alerts for practically nothing. Also because each network is competing not only with the other networks, but websites, they sometimes rush their stories, which increases the likelihood of making a mistake and getting something wrong.There's also a problem with all of these networks being first and foremost entertainment, and conveying actual news and information a far distant second, as far as priorities go. They want as many eyeballs as possible, and so they'll talk about whatever they can to get those eyeballs, even if it's something superfluous. Of course, this also enhances their partisanship, they are all going for a specific audience, and don't want to lose that audience, so they will generally report things in a way that reinforces their audience's bias, telling them only what they want to hear as much as they possibly can.
The bias that exists in the media isn't new, though. There have always been left leaning and right leaning publications. The partisanship is worse now in that regard, but it's worse in pretty much every aspect of society, it's not unique to the media.
So yeah, there are problems, but they're pretty easy to avoid - just don't watch the 24 hour news networks. There are plenty of good news websites out there to get decent news and information.
Oh, look, the only intelligent and well-thought-out post in the thread. Yes, this is the correct perspective. And The Media is always chasing the controversial story. The more controversial and shocking, the better. Americans are addicted to bullshit and non-news news.
And there are definitely great news outlets. I think staying away from Fox, MSNBC, CNN, etc....stay away from them all. Huff Po and Wa Po...LA Times...rubbish.
This is what you get when even the reporters can't hide their boredom at having to fill time with non news. This case being the birth of Prince George