The View From Mike's Face; Jan. 2

Just my opinion

     The more I see of T.V. cable news, the more depressed I get.  There is no 'there' there. The days of someone trustworthy like Walter Cronkite, who you believed 100 percent, are so over.  What has replaced his ilk are cardboard cutouts under the banner of 'reporter'.  The people are being ripped off; sure, it's a slick version of news programming; it looks impressive, it looks important, but it's all smoke and no fire.  Instead of unbiased reporting, we get the news slanted to support whatever position the network holds.  The worst offender, at least in my humble opinion, is Fox News.  I'll hear about a story on there, think no one will believe that b. s., only to find out Fox News viewers certainly do.  They believe it because it's the only news show they will watch.  They are told and believe that every other network has a 'liberal bias', and are all lying, every one of them.  Now, I don't single out Fox as the only network that manipulates the truth to support their ideology, they all do it, some more than others, but gone are the days when the truth meant something.  Now days, it's all about entertaining people.  NPR is about the last bastion of truth left in journalism.  What would Walter Cronkite say about the joke our media has become?  I think I can guess, but kids might read this, so I'd better not say!

Reviews

[char]

Hahaha, I used to get my biased news from Stephen Colbert! What does that say about me? :D In my opinion, MSN "news" is the worst, but Fox is right up there holding hands with them.

[Michael Stevens]

Yeah they're ALL bad; maybe The BBC on T.V? And Colbert and The Daily Show are a lot closer to the truth than any network news program!

[Marie]

I have no point of reference here. I get my news off the Internet, and not much of that. I do try to know what's going on, but have a hard time keeping up.

[Michael Stevens]

Well, I sure wish I could stop watching cable news, but if wishes were rainbows we'd all have a pot of gold!