>>>>>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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>>If only more people understood what you are saying...
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>OK, a reality check: the person in front of the camera is not entitled to express any opinion other than what the "boys upstairs" say. In communism, that was called "he went to the committee to get his own opinion".

Actually, Dragan, the problem is that with so many other news sources available now, it is getting easier to see how a particular news outlet 'flavors' the news to tailor it to their poltical viewpoint. What really generates anger is when they manufacture or stage news, leave out important facts (in the name of poltical correctness) because they refute the offical dogma of the news outlet, and other shinanigans. That people have become aware of this is the primary reason why CNN and the other major outlets have been loosing viewers in droves. In times past political activists had only to capture the management of the top 3 or 4 major outlets, the way they've captured the journalism schools at formerly reptutable journalism colleges, but now there are too many for them to subvert and other opinions are reaching the foreground. DrudgeReport is just one example. MaxNews is another. For example. Bill Brush, sunday morning essayist for CBS was, earlier in his career, writer, reporter and then manager of Pacifica Radio. You can't get any farther left, politically, than that station, yet they have the audacity to call just about everyone else 'extremists', especially conservatives. Pacifica is one of the major drum beaters for the tune "The WTC is America's fault", but it is just another verse of the same tune they've been playing for decades.
JLK