MSNBC is no more!

[August]

Originally Posted by JU_88

I'll take your word for it. For the record our own BBC isnt that much better in terms of censorship, but at least they dont try to spoon feed us their opinions quite so much.

Our news media rarely censors anything but they'll almost always tell you how you should view it.

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by August

Our news media rarely censors anything but they'll almost always tell you how you should view it.

Not so much censorship, but bias in form of selective journalism, like when several thousand military personel and veterans marched on Washington DC in support off Ron Paul a while back, of course nobody covers it because he was the 'unpopular' candidate.
That kind of thing, would have been fine if there were bigger GOP related stories to cover on the particular day, but there were not.
Its not that everything they report is a lie by any means, but you know how it is, best swallowed with pinch of salt and all that.

[August]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Not so much censorship, but bias in form of selective journalism, like when several thousand military personel and veterans marched on Washington DC in support off Ron Paul a while back, of course nobody covers it because he was the 'unpopular' candidate.

Who told you that it wasn't covered JU? This was last winter, right? Maybe the news didn't reach England but I definitely remember hearing about it from several local media sources at the time.

Maybe it didn't make the big splash you think it should have because it was not the thousands that you claim but rather just a few hundred. That's ain't very impressive by Washington standards.

Its not that everything they report is a lie by any means, but you know how it is, best swallowed with pinch of salt and all that.

I agree, and that includes claims by Ron Paul supporters apparently!

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by August

Maybe it didn't make the big splash you think it should have because it was not the thousands that you claim but rather just a few hundred. That's ain't very impressive by Washington standards.

We are both off the mark, It was 'over a Thousand' I just looked it up

[August]

Originally Posted by JU_88

We are both off the mark, It was 'over a Thousand' I just looked it up

Now remove the non-vet Ron Paul supporters tagging along and you have just a few hundred "veterans".

[Platapus]

Well the active duty military that participated in that march, no matter what the number, probably would prefer not to have a lot of media publicity as their participation may be considered an Article 92 violation of DoD Directive 1344.10.

But getting back to a main point, where is it written that a commercial news media has to report every story? News media are private companies (in most cases) and as private companies they are free to report or not report as they see fit.

Originally Posted by Platapus

News media are private companies (in most cases) and as private companies they are free to report or not report as they see fit.

Besides, don't we get unopinionated news here in GT?