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re: People who don't watch or read the news
Posted on 10/3/22 at 12:39 pm to Cliff Booth
Posted on 10/3/22 at 12:39 pm to Cliff Booth
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However, a more engaged population who at least tried to understand what was happening around them would be harder to lie to.
How can you lie to me if I’m not listening to you?
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Posted on 10/3/22 at 12:42 pm to LSUBFA83
Local Fox affiliate posts a handful of 1-2 minute YouTube videos daily from their 6pm show. I watch the ones I'm interested in, including the daily weather forecast.
That's it. Oh, and occasionally click on whatever loony topic threads that pop up here.
That's it. Oh, and occasionally click on whatever loony topic threads that pop up here.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 12:46 pm to LSUBFA83
Let me guess. This thread is filled with everyone saying they don't watch any news.
Another wild guess. Some of these same people, who don't watch the news, will sit on the OT and argue all day about the news topics they apparently don't watch
These are just extreme off the wall guesses though
Another wild guess. Some of these same people, who don't watch the news, will sit on the OT and argue all day about the news topics they apparently don't watch
These are just extreme off the wall guesses though
Posted on 10/3/22 at 12:50 pm to Billy Blanks
quote:Friggin THIS - if you have nothing to talk about other than what's going on with politics, then I likely am not going to intentionally be around your misery. Read books, watch other things on tv, go outside and experience things - don't just show up and turn every conversation about politics. Theres old friends and people that I really like that I've had to use the ignore feature on social media, I just can't stomach logging in and seeing the rabble rabble all the time from them.
These types are just awful to be around. Always angry/ranting but never actually taking action about things they can control in their own lives/locally.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 12:54 pm to LSUBFA83
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just don't understand people who can go around in complete ignorance. And then go vote.
The news solves ignorance?
Posted on 10/3/22 at 12:57 pm to LSUBFA83
They probably know how to utilize a paragraph
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:01 pm to LSUBFA83
You call it news, I call it propaganda. If most people only knew the real Truth about what is happening. But here in lies the problem, we can't change what is happening even though we are a majority. They have stolen our right to freely elect who is in office. Not just by controlling the vote count and illegal voting but the choices that we have to choose from. Both candidates work for the same corporation that sponsors them. They all follow direction from the people who control the worlds wealth. You can vote the party that used to represent your ideals and end up with a Cassidy. And I can name many more. The war in the Ukraine is slanted as is everything else. They control social media now with bots. We are right where we are suppose to be in time.
This post was edited on 10/3/22 at 1:10 pm
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:02 pm to The Third Leg
quote:Were you picked for the jury?
“Where do you get your news” was a major question in a jury selection process I underwent not long ago. I told them “I don’t watch news and I try my hardest not to read it either”
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:03 pm to LSUBFA83
If it’s important enough you’ll hear about it at work or from someone close to you.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:04 pm to LSUBFA83
My dad had Fox news on at the camp all evening and after 3 hours of listening to that I felt like I'd been made retarded. Would have felt the same if it'd been CNN or any other major news source that tries to spin a narrative. I try to stay informed but the major news networks are there to tell you how to think, not give you the facts.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:05 pm to LSUBFA83
I don't pay much attention to news tbh. I used to, but it'll really get in your head and make you feel like the world is collapsing around you. I check headlines from time to time, I do keep up with hurricanes (just the hurricane thread here and NHC advisories), and peruse topics on OT and Reddit from time to time to see what people are talking about, but no way I'm watching CNN or Fox News all the time.
I stay in my crypto and dev bubble mostly
I stay in my crypto and dev bubble mostly
This post was edited on 10/3/22 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:07 pm to Loup
Fox is good for 1 hour and 10 minutes a week. The first 10 minutes of Tucker just to see him shite on someone like the mayor of Nola and Mark Levines show on Sunday.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:13 pm to rickyh
The news is nothing but orchestrated manipulation, that’s why I get my research from the gateway pundit
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:26 pm to Cliff Booth
quote:I'd argue the folks watching the news are the ones taking the bait and being gullible.
However, a more engaged population who at least tried to understand what was happening around them would be harder to lie to.
quote:And then probably watch the news that slants towards your political beliefs and think they're great. So...it's no different than the other side, just give me all those talking points coming from the echo chamber.
Every now and then, I'll watch the CBS/ABC/NBC evening "news" just to see what the current propaganda sounds like. It's sobering to think that millions of people take that stuff as gospel and let it influence their lives. We have to encourage each other to dig a little deeper and question that shite.
Those hardcore Democrats & Republicans, as I say weekly around here, are the living embodiment of the Spiderman pointing meme, they just don't realize it.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:28 pm to LSUBFA83
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Tampa
To be fair, Tampa has not taken a hit from a hurricane in like 100 years so expect them to be a bit nonchalant
Oh and frick the “news.” News as we knew it is dead.
This post was edited on 10/3/22 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:41 pm to tss22h8
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Were you picked for the jury?
No. I was definitely one of the strikes though. I was #8 going in.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 2:00 pm to shel311
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I'd argue the folks watching the news are the ones taking the bait and being gullible.
I'm not saying everyone needs to watch MSM news. I'm saying make some effort to inform yourself in whichever way you think is best. I think it's a disservice to the collective to live life with your head in the sand. That's all I meant.
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And then probably watch the news that slants towards your political beliefs and think they're great. So...it's no different than the other side, just give me all those talking points coming from the echo chamber.
Not at all. I didn't mention Fox/CNN because I think that's a whole different type of outlet than the big 3 which would theoretically be nonpartisan.
If you have something to say just say it. No need to misrepresent what I posted.
Honestly you sound like you just want to ridicule anybody who gives a shite about anything.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 2:13 pm to Cliff Booth
Which news isn’t propaganda? I’ll hang up and listen.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 2:22 pm to LSUBFA83
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This was brought to my mind because of thread about the Advocate article that mentions a young gay man who didn't know he was at risk for AIDS
Censorship has it's consequences.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 2:22 pm to Cliff Booth
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However, a more engaged population who at least tried to understand what was happening around them would be harder to lie to.
You really underestimate how much average people want to be lied to, and need to feel like they're on the popular side of every argument. Some people never mature past adolescence, even if their formal education continues.
And being "engaged" with the media makes them think that the way to sound smart is to sound angry all the time.
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