That is amazing because here WRAL is usually spot-on.


>>>A person well respected in the news business said something interesting the other day. He said that journalism no longer exists. The media is controlled by sponsors.
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>>>The media decides what will be said and how it will be reported. A meeting is held at the beginning of the week to decide what top two or three stories will be reported.
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>>I watched one show recently which had an ex-media executive talking exactly about this news-fixing. Just like big banks here (and perhaps elsewhere) maintain undeclared (is illegal) cartel where they discuss/agree market rates etc.
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>>While in case of banks you still get your loan
>>(at somewhat elevated price / brutal fee charges)
>>in case of big news channels, instead of real news you get b-class soap style entertainment. It became simply disquisting.
>>[ I have to apologise to soap-opera makers for this unfair comparison! ]
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>>Someone here slammed idea of having state (tax) sponsored news channels because they go against free market ideals, but when you look at (global) effects and consequences of missinformation/manipulation that bundled big news corporations are dispensing on unsuspecting audiences, I don't see
>>it as all that bad idea. More like a 'good start' :)
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>>oRC.Click()
>>Here comes - 'Isaura' !
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>What amazes me is to compare what you say to life in my country. It sounds like the world is the same no matter where you are, to a great extent.
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>I like to watch the news from different sources such as BBC, DW, RT, Telemundo, etc. Regardless of the source there is bias but you have to realize why that bias exists. Often you will hear news stories about our country that are only reported by international news agencies.
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>Then we have our weather “experts”, who give a ten day forecast and cannot tell you what the high temperature was for the day. They often miss the ten day forecast, which is updated several times a day. With so many television weather reports coming from the San Francisco Bay Area, you would think that they would have the same information. No, they have theatrics and wave his/her arms to emulate the flow of the wind. What gets me is that all these television weather reporters get information from the same source in Monterey, California!
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>One day in the Spring of 1983 we had a storm with 90 mph wind and heavy rain. Tree limbs were blocking the streets, trees had blown over and it was a total mess. I turned on the television to hear the news and the most popular reporter (KGO Pete Giddings) who said that the weather was clear. I yelled at him to stick his head out of the window and experience the weather.
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>If there is ever any truth expressed on the media it is only because we accept it as such.