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> > I tend to feel disturbed by how little it presents as reporting, and instead, how much it appears to have an agenda. > If you don't read the news, then you
by gernb 4y ago
> > I tend to feel disturbed by how little it presents as reporting, and instead, how much it appears to have an agenda.
> If you don't read the news, then you're at risk of lacking important contextual knowledge about society and social norms.
Unfortunately there's very little news that doesn't have an agenda. So I'm not getting the news. I'm getting someone's opinions with various facts spun in a way so as to try to get me to vote one way or another. Is that a better way to be informed on how to vote?
- unfoldedCravat 4y agoAs Mark Twain once said "If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." I guess it's up to the individual to choose what they prefer.
- mdp2021 4y agoYou may note that it is substantially symmetrical to "To be, or not to be ...: Whether 'tis nobler ... to sleep No more ... [or] in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" I.e.: if you want to participate, then some degree of effort is involved.