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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts) Mon Jun 23, 2014, 01:12 PM Jun 2014

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Evidence based argument and theory is NOT the same as uninformed opinion......but

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making it appear so sure makes for cheap and easy work of political and factual news production.

The result is entertainment, news as entertainment, news as manipulation, news as disinformation and misinformation, news as distraction, news as moral preaching. Everything but what the press was given constitutional written protection for in the first place, to be guardians of truth, guardians of free and fair debate, guardians of democracy.

The media pillaring and demonizing Manning and Snowden and Greenwald, is this corrupted shadow of a media lashing back at those that dare the nation to be reminded of their constitutional role.

Maybe they will finally feel guilty enough to make the march back to the watchtower.

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Evidence based argument and theory is NOT the same as uninformed opinion......but (Original Post) Fred Sanders Jun 2014 OP

Give them a buck and they will do whatever you wish.. Bandit Jun 2014 #1

“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.” Lord Northcliffe Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #2

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #3

Bandit

(21,475 posts)

1. Give them a buck and they will do whatever you wish..

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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 01:38 PM

Jun 2014

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

2. “News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.” Lord Northcliffe

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 01:41 PM

Jun 2014

Uncle Joe

(58,361 posts)

3. Kicked and recommended.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 01:46 PM

Jun 2014

Thanks for the thread, Fred Sanders.

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