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Does Personalized News Lead To Ignorance?
blackbearnh writes "As newspapers struggle to survive and local broadcasts try to find a way to compete with cable news, more and more news outlets are banking on what people want to hear about, rather than what they need to hear. Thoughtful analysis of problems is being pushed out of the way to make room for more celebrity gossip. Electronic news guru Chris Lee thinks that as people get news increasingly tailored to their tastes, the overall knowledge of important issues is plummeting. 'I think one of the observations about how consumers are behaving in the past five years that has surprised me the most is, again, this lack of feeling responsible for knowing the news of their country and their local government of that day. I don't think it's just a technology question. I think if you asked people now versus the same age group 20 years ago, I think they'd be stunningly less informed now about boring news, and tremendously more knowledgeable about bits of news that really interest them.'"
Judging from the audience for the highly personalized "news" network named Fox News, I'd say yes. Fox News tells a specific group of people exactly what they want to hear, not what needs to be known. It surprises me that they are still allowed to use the word "News" in their name.
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Good God, folks, he graded out as the most leftist Senator, by far.
Why the hell is anyone surprised that he's governed from the hard left?
MSNBC, CNN, BBC, and all the network news do the same thing. They have a specific slant and the people that tune in to them hear what they want to hear.
Sounds like your just angry and pick out Fox because Fox News is the undisputed leader in news today, and is smoking all these lefty, old-guard stations. They're the only ones who don't slobber over Obama every day.
You just don't like their viewpoint which is fine, but don't pretend what they do is new or unique.
You just got pwned. Mod me up mods.
I got a couple of countries I can advise you to visit if you really want to take a look at what the "hard left" is really like.
I know the countries you speak of, and if you look at policies passed / proposed in the past year, you'll find that Obama has emulated them wonderfully. Just because Obama knows he can't change the entire government overnight doesn't mean he doesn't WANT to.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
Elitism and intolerance causes the latter, not the former.
FTFY
I call it a bullshit Fox News talking point. Even if it were true, what evidence is there that these government 'death panels' would be any worse than the insurance company death panels that already exist?