Why Different News?
I wrote about trusting news
organizations. It is also amazing to see
how two different news organizations present what they think is news. At time President Trump has been sued by a
porn actress claiming they had an affair.
She was “paid off” by Trumps personal lawyer a few weeks prior to the
election. She claims their
confidentially agreement has been broken by the lawyer due to his public
statements regarding the issue.
Yesterday I looked at two different
news sites to see how it was being reported.
At foxnews.com, a conservative view, it did not mentioned it at
all. To them it was not news at
all. On MSNBC, a liberal view, you would
have thought it would be the end of the Trumps presidency. They had blaring headlines about the story.
If the press is supposed to be
objective, what are we to make of this? The same story presented in two totally
different ways. How is the public to
decide which is the more accurate view?
Have our news organizations become so politicized that just presenting
the “facts” is hard? If one says nothing
about a story and another says it is a very big deal, does that not further
polarize the population? How many places
do you have to get the news in order to make a decision on which is “right?”
Each news organization will
vigorously defend their position. Each
believes they are right. However, each slants the news to their
respective audiences in order to keep the advertisers happy with the
demographic they want to target.
This is not the principal of the Free
Press words of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. Is reporting news totally objective not
viable or profitable? I know “totally
objective” is tough since people are subjective. However, if an organization
wants the protection of the 1st Amendment, it should abide by the
intent. I am pretty cynical on
this. I don’t expect much change until
there is leader in the Presidency who unites and not divides. Until that time,
we get opposite news reported to us.
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