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Originally Posted by August
But the media aren't liberals. They're opportunists, exploiters, vampires who feed off controversy and human misery. They have their liberals and they have their conservatives but they are not driven by ideology.
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Sure you have your left leanings (CNN - Communist News Network) and your right leaners (Fox News - Faux News) but all media news outlets are out for the shock factor. Perhaps it is to gain and hold peoples attention through righteous indignation, or perhaps it's just pushing boundaries as far as they can before someone snaps them back.
Case in point, the current UK Leveson inquiry which has shown just how corrupt and rotten the core of the modern reporting media really is, gross invasions of privacy, intimidation, sleeze, backroom deals, the whole shebang. Heck, one popular theory has the press responsible for the death of Princess Diana all those years ago (paparazzi chasing Dianas car, causing the driver to speed up to try and lose them, and in turn lose control and crash), and I'd certainly wager that they were a contributing factor if not the reason itself.
My primary source of news is the BBC, but that's not to say that the BBC is completely unbias, good God no, it's tragically bias in some cases, however what you have to learn to do over time is to take everything that every news outlet says with a pinch of salt unless you have witnessed it directly yourself. As a popular saying goes 'There are two sides to every story' and quite often we only get to hear one side.