KittenKoder
Senior Member
Too much rift raft in the type of reporting that goes on in the Internet. Personally I do not want to, nor do I have time to wade through every page of garbage that is posted on the Internet. Reliable sources that people have depended on for decades needs to stay reliable in their news reporting. If a population does not have accurate information provided to them by the media how can that same populace make informed decisions?I rarely read your postings Huggy but I agree with you about much of the media today. Honest reporting went the wayside with mega companies. Why is that? How do people remedy that situation? How do you get information out that many do not wish to hear about?
Now we have a solution, turn of the TV ... or only watch entertainment shows and take nothing on it as fact. We have the net for that now, though you have to sort through a lot of garbage still, at least there is some fact online somewhere.
I understand what Huggy is saying here about reporting being bias and not reporting based on facts. A few years ago there was an accident less than a block from my son's house in Des Moines. I was there at his house. I heard the noise and looked outside to see what going on. A car had ran a red light and a motorcycle had collided with the car. Before the wreckage was removed I took my camera down and snapped pictures of the accident. The police were none to friendly. I talked with a neighbor boy who had watched the whole accident. It was obviously the car drivers fault. She was a young inexperienced driver that had ran a red light. The motorcycle was in pieces strewn all over the street and sidewalk. The impacted was so hard the car was also totaled.
The reason I took the pictures because my son had just bought a fancy custom chopper from California. I've told him for years I worry about the others on the road more than you, in as much as you may be careful and an excellent driver the other guy may not be.... Mom was using the accident to do a little preaching to son about the danger he was in on that fancy new bike he had just purchased.
The media and the police put this whole accident off on the motorcycle rider. They did not report the accident with an unbiased view. I believe the reason they lied was because of who the guy was and what he owned..(a local club/bar)... That man's family now has to deal with biased police reports and biased reporting.
Um ... real life is best. The media gets their information from the net, Fox for one goes to forums like this for their info in reality. Don't let them fool you, the news is just filtered bulletin board information. Matter of fact, one of our local reporters fessed up on accident once, it was funny, they were getting their info from "Twitter" ... LOL. The best way to get info is to use real life and ignore the media. Make friends with people across the globe and ask them when you want global news.