There should be huge penalties for news blogs, papers, stations stating something false misleading or that is fake or a lie. (And the fines should grow exponential with each new error/lie)
So, for example, when someone reports that Trump is racist because he says "illegal immigrants are rapists and murderers" when what he actually said was that most were decent, hard working people but that the illegal population contained rapists and murderers they should be fined?
That's just one example, but it is used SO much in the "Trump is racist" argument.
"US TV channels have never been credible news sources."
Well, I have to disagree with that... but only the absoluteness of it. "Never" is, in my opinion, not correct. During WWII there was censorship of the news coming out of the war zones. This censorship was not initiated by the government but by the networks themselves after they met and decided, correctly, that certain news had a high probability of aiding the enemy in certain ways. The result was a group of individuals from the networks censoring the news content to remove articles they felt had the potential to aid the enemy. Most likely they had government help at that point, but I actually believe that at that point in our history the news organizations were very credible. I do NOT however have the experience or skill set needed to analyze the news since then to determine when the credibility started falling.
CpnTripps
They just have you swallow a few magnets. The iron at the core sticks to the magnets and you pass it all back out as a big clump:)
I don't think I'd want to be second in line for the treatment when they reprocessed the stuff, though.
A curious side effect of the treatment is, after walking under high voltage power lines, you can float in a swimming pool and your head always points north.
I agree 100%. And not just with video games. I coached soccer for my 2 sons for 10 years. At the same time they wanted to play online video games (Counter-Strike mainly) so instead of just turning them loose at a young age, I ran my own server with "kid-friendly" rules. (No cussing... no racist remarks... etc.) I also played with them. The server eventually got a reputation for having strict rules about language, etc., and more parents got involved in it with their kids. Now this was years ago. Currently I'm sponsoring my youngest son, who is about to turn 18, and his team in some fairly major gaming competitions. (Yes... he can kick my butt, but I still don't let it stop me from still getting online and playing the game with him). An added bonus... it's a special feeling to go into a server against a bunch of teenagers, rack up a great score against them, then tell them I'm 42 years old... but I digress. I'll restate that I agree with you... just like in any activity your children do, if you take part, support, and get involved, in my opinion you'll always do better with your kids than if you just turn them loose on their own.
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There are always Apparatniks like you will, who will sell out their country for power
Like selling control of a huge portion of US Uranium to a Russian interest?
Good point you make there.
CpnTripps
There should be huge penalties for news blogs, papers, stations stating something false misleading or that is fake or a lie. (And the fines should grow exponential with each new error/lie)
So, for example, when someone reports that Trump is racist because he says "illegal immigrants are rapists and murderers" when what he actually said was that most were decent, hard working people but that the illegal population contained rapists and murderers they should be fined?
That's just one example, but it is used SO much in the "Trump is racist" argument.
Just saying.... CpnTripps
"US TV channels have never been credible news sources." Well, I have to disagree with that... but only the absoluteness of it. "Never" is, in my opinion, not correct. During WWII there was censorship of the news coming out of the war zones. This censorship was not initiated by the government but by the networks themselves after they met and decided, correctly, that certain news had a high probability of aiding the enemy in certain ways. The result was a group of individuals from the networks censoring the news content to remove articles they felt had the potential to aid the enemy. Most likely they had government help at that point, but I actually believe that at that point in our history the news organizations were very credible. I do NOT however have the experience or skill set needed to analyze the news since then to determine when the credibility started falling. CpnTripps
They just have you swallow a few magnets. The iron at the core sticks to the magnets and you pass it all back out as a big clump :)
I don't think I'd want to be second in line for the treatment when they reprocessed the stuff, though.
A curious side effect of the treatment is, after walking under high voltage power lines, you can float in a swimming pool and your head always points north.
I agree 100%. And not just with video games. I coached soccer for my 2 sons for 10 years. At the same time they wanted to play online video games (Counter-Strike mainly) so instead of just turning them loose at a young age, I ran my own server with "kid-friendly" rules. (No cussing... no racist remarks... etc.) I also played with them. The server eventually got a reputation for having strict rules about language, etc., and more parents got involved in it with their kids. Now this was years ago. Currently I'm sponsoring my youngest son, who is about to turn 18, and his team in some fairly major gaming competitions. (Yes... he can kick my butt, but I still don't let it stop me from still getting online and playing the game with him). An added bonus... it's a special feeling to go into a server against a bunch of teenagers, rack up a great score against them, then tell them I'm 42 years old... but I digress. I'll restate that I agree with you... just like in any activity your children do, if you take part, support, and get involved, in my opinion you'll always do better with your kids than if you just turn them loose on their own.