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The Net's Effect on Journalism
An Associated Press article about the impact of the internet on journalism has a few interesting findings. A few years ago, it was expected that the internet would democratize news coverage. While print media is being rapidly reborn online, web-based news appears to be constraining the number of conversations instead of expanding them. "The news agenda actually seems to be narrowing, with many Web sites primarily packaging news that is produced elsewhere, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual State of the News Media report. Two stories - the war in Iraq and the 2008 presidential election campaign - represented more than a quarter of the stories in newspapers, on television and online last year, the project found. Take away Iraq, Iran and Pakistan, and news from all of the other countries in the world combined filled up less than 6 percent of the American news hole, the project said."
If you don't agree with the left leaning crowd then you don't have a voice. You are automatically branded a "troll" and down-modded.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
Everyone knows that.
I'd just like to see a reporter ask a follow up question once in a while when a politicians makes some claim or another. All they do is parrot what the sack of shit politico says. Same thing with press releases of the "sleep causes cancer" type of "science" from "research institutes" which are actually poorly disguised activist groups conducting half assed phone polls.
Online news isn't any better. It's just as biased, perhaps even more so. It's either warmed over shallow crap or manifesto-like hysterial written by someone so mlinded by reality distortion fields it's a wonder they can find their way to the computer to post. Sometimes I can imagine them occasionally trying to type their screed into their microwave oven or their pet.
There's no in between. There's no thoughtful, unbiased analysis. And if think you found an unbiased, truthful site, most likely it's just something that agrees with whatever ideological memetic poison you personally have decided to mainline.