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- Please no inappropriate usernames (remember that there may be youngsters in the room)
- Personal attacks on other community members are unacceptable, practice the good manners your mama taught you when engaging with fellow Dawg fans
- Use common sense and respect personal differences in the community: sexual and other inappropriate language or imagery, political rants and belittling the opinions of others will get your posts deleted and result in warnings and/ or banning from the forum
- 3/17/19 UPDATE -- We've updated the permissions for our "Football" and "Commit to the G" recruiting message boards. We aim to be the best free board out there and that has not changed. We do now ask that all of you good people register as a member of our forum in order to see the sugar that is falling from our skies, so to speak.
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Amen Brother !! Media is a very, very powerful entity, weapon to. If they decide to go after a person or organization, they can wreak havoc at terrible levels. And honestly I think many, many times they don’t give a crap as long as it’s generating $$ for them.
Or advancing an agenda or ideology that they have. As you and several others have so well stated in many cases media is no longer a factual news provider but a Sensationalism machine.
Nations can be destroyed by so called News Media. The ole saying The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword is so true. There’s still honest fact driven media but it has and is ever more rapidly becoming a tiny minority among the sensation factories posing as news outlets. Sad but true.
There is one bright and redeeming factor and that is more and more people have and are beginning to realize and see these “news” outlets for what they really are, and that’s a Good thing.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ______Benjamin Franklin
Back when they were "smart"...they were subtle...Hollywood, too. But, "News", has become an entertainment business and that's how they're behaving. Now, they've become "mind-shapers" and "influencers". Not..."reporters of facts & truth". We've lost that.
Personally, I think they should remove a lot of the 1st Amendment, Title 230 (?) and similar protections the mainstream media been accustomed to for a couple of centuries...and completely ABUSED. We need to reign em back in...or turn em completely loose.
Not completely, of course...but, where "naming sources" and the like is concerned. How many times over the last 7 yrs, have you heard..."a high ranking official said..."...or, "a source close to the..."or, "an anonymous source says...". Sources are rarely named, anymore.
Back in the day, if you wanted to run a sourced story, without "naming the source"...the Chief Editor required at least 2 or 3 corroborating sources...BEFORE...running the story.
Now, they just have a rag like "Buzz Feed" or "The Examiner" (etal.) run the story THEY want to report on....without actual facts and sources. Then...prefacing every segment with the remarks..."If true...blah, blah, blah". They keep pushing "The Lie" until it gains traction.
When the "fake story blows up....they don't run a "correction story". They just move on as if. As if We're complete morons without a memory and a computer. We, as consumers, probably do more actual reading and research, than most Journalists, today.
Reminds of a bedtime story my Mother used to tell me...in a number of different ways (Lol). "The Little Boy Who Cried WOLF". Nobody believes the traditional media anymore...on anything.
They can, "legally", fabricate any quote or fact, they want, that represents their point of view and opinion. Then...present it as fact and truth.
It's like the Father Merrin said in "The Exorcist"...."Don't listen to him (Satan). He is a liar. He will attack us with lies. But, he will mix lies with the truth to confuse us.." That's "The News Media", today...in a nutshell. Evil. Lol
Like Jesus says..."The truth will set you free.". So....give us THE truth...OUR truth...not YOUR truth. Know what I mean. Oh well...what're ya gonna do?. Lol...keep reading between the lines and takin' it with a grain of salt.
@BigDawg61 All well said Bro. and So true. But like you said we’ll just have to read between the lines and Know in our hearts to take what’s said with a grain of salt, many times a Boulder of salt !! 😂