>>>>ABC news has now barred its staff members from wearing American flag lapel pins on the air. Spokesman Jeffrey Schneider told The Washington Post that, "We cannot signal how we feel about a cause, even a justified cause, through some sort of outward symbol."
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>>>>Ain't America Great!
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>>>Are they saying the commentaries made by "them" on their network are not opinions or how people ("they") feel???
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>>Bill;
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>>You just made the point. The "boys upstairs" write the script and control content. The clowns in front of the camera just wait for his/her strings to be pulled and do everything necessary to obtain the "correct content". Content is determined long before the camera or mic are turned on.
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>>Tom
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>Exactly my point Tom. :-)
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>In reality, opinions, feelings, guesses, prognostications, etc., etc. are promulgated in all the news media all the time. Generally speaking, IMO, genuine objective reporting of factual information ( i.e. factual data minus interpretation/opinion/feelings/etc. ) in the news media is virtually impossible to find.
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>And in some cases, if they just owned up to this and admitted they have biases, I could excuse it more. But the nose-in-the-air attitude of "we just report news" kind of ( if you couldn't tell :-) ) causes me consternation.
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>Bill

Bill;

Add to that: “And now, a word from our sponsors”!

Tom