Because of my line of work and my expertise, I know for a fact the current situation at any given time with one area of the world with regard to current event. I’ll let you guess what area that is.

When I see news reports I know that about 50% of their facts are wrong or lies and 95% of their political nonsense is wrong or lies. Because after all it’s damn near impossible to be wrong 100% of the time. That’s the same as always being right.

So that leads me to the realization that if this is the case with my area of knowledge then more than likely this is true of all media. Worst part, it’s not a left or right dem or republican problem. It’s a media problem. They are all wrong. So I’ve found myself not trusting ANY and avoiding it about as much as I avoid professional sports now.

Anyone else in the same boat or able to offer real world reasons. Opinions are good too but I genuinely can’t sit there an watch someone lie to my face.

I would suggest that most articles labeled as news are presently opinion, disguised as news.

There was once an article in the Seattle Times about raising and recovering small gauge railway coal cars from Lake Washington. I had friends, contacts, time and a desire to help so I got involved.

The article was wrong, misleading, inaccurate, an advertisement and coercion to name a few. Other than there being small gauge railway coal cars in Lake Washington nothing else in the article was true.

I've always questioned what is being reported but this was the 1 time I had actual first hand knowledge and proof it was complete and utter bullshit. This was something local, here, now and easily confirmed.

Every single person I know--every single one, and this includes myself as well--who has ever had personal knowledge about a story printed in the paper or on the news has commented, "wait a minute, that's not true." Every one.

So why then would anyone take any bit of news that he reads or sees and take it for absolute truth? Because that article or news piece that you don't have intimate knowledge about is no different than the one you do. Somewhere out there there is a person saying, "wait a minute, that's not true" for every single news piece ever written or reported on. Every one.

We quit national news back in the Brian Williams heyday.

I used to watch (with jaundiced eye) the local news but they went full retard when the current sh*tstorm began. I was thinking of making a custom recording for the DVR that just gives me the weather.

Now I get 90% of my news here. Plus some watching of OANN ,Tucker Carlson on YT and other sundry snippets. Loved Trumps' trolling of the reporter karen yesterday about 'peaceful protest.'

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Every single person I know--every single one, and this includes myself as well--who has ever had personal knowledge about a story printed in the paper or on the news has commented, "wait a minute, that's not true." Every one.

^^ THIS ^^

I've been involved in several o&g incidents that made the news (one even generated a call from Bush Whitehouse). To say they got it 50% correct would be extremely generous. In one event, we were given credit with developing a revolutionary cold fusion welding process just to make the repair (we used a tried and true welding method that was decades old and the weld pool was of course molten).

Even what is supposed to be a puff piece arranged by our media relations for our o&g project that was spending a boatload of money. We received questions via e-mail and I personally typed the answers, but the MF'ers couldn't even accurately cut and paste and/or were too stupid to understand the question they asked and the corresponding answer.

If you watch a trump rally, speech or news conference and then read the news reports about it you will get a good idea what kind of 'reporting' is being done in this country

Most "journalists" have very little knowledge about anything they report on.
As a cop I would be involved in stuff that the media reported on. Often it read like an entirely different event.

It’s like there really is a Spectre type organization controlling the narrative. It’s hard to believe that global media is consistent with one another on such a large scale of falsehood.

DJT is running a sponsored poll on FB that I see. It had about 500 comments when I opened it up.

The comments listed were sorted by ‘most relevant’ and were, if not all Negative to DJT.

Hmmm. No slant there.....

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Most "journalists" have very little knowledge about anything they report on.

This.

We expect writers who cover finance, sports, food/wine etc, to be well versed and have at the very least a functional understanding of the field they're covering. When it comes to general news, politics and foreign affairs however, the vast majority are incredibly ignorant and are incapable of providing any information without coming across as grossly biased, or, simply leaving-out whole chunks of information. Further frustration and mistrust of the media comes from the editors who are likely just like the people they overseas only smarter and more agile amongst the decision makers, who insert deliberately misleading/sensationalistic headlines and bylines, along with imagery that alters the way the story is perceived...or, outright incorrect picture.

Confirmation bias. Select and process data in a way that supports the picture you already believe, and/or the picture you want others to believe. IE, discard any contradictory data.

Reminds me of Dan Rather presenting documents to demean Bush. IIRC, when the docs were proven to be fake, Rather said along the lines "so the docs are fake, my story is still true".

I totally agree with you! I am completely done with professional sports, even covered the Arizona Cardinals insignia on my license plate with an American flag sticker and looking for a new avatar. Don't watch any network or cable news, not even Fox.

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Might be a registration violation to put that sticker on.

We have an online "newspaper" here that has local stuff, crime report, traffic accidents and such.

At the end of each story it lists the author and their background. One reporter's degree is listed as "Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction".

In today's world I don't understand forming opinions based off of reporting. Why rely on the opinion of the writer when so much of what they're talking about is right there on video to watch. You can look for yourself and form your own opinion.

Frog boiling - they've been lying to us since the 60s, now they don't even try to hide their lies because the majority of Americans won't fact check them.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
In today's world I don't understand forming opinions based off of reporting. Why rely on the opinion of the writer when so much of what they're talking about is right there on video to watch. You can look for yourself and form your own opinion.

Except most videos are lacking context and can be grossly misleading. The Covington kids situation is a perfect example.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:
When I see news reports I know that about 50% of their facts are wrong or lies and 95% of their political nonsense is wrong or lies.

health reporting is right down that alley.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Most "journalists" have very little knowledge about anything they report on.
As a cop I would be involved in stuff that the media reported on. Often it read like an entirely different event.

Yep. I’ve been involved in things that make national news. 100 percent of the time the media puts whatever their spin on it is. It is never correct, much less factual.