Do you believe that any network news channel honestly presents the news? If so, who and why?

Question

I'm trying to determine the most reliable brand of news, and understand in what way certain media outlets spin and misdirect the viewer by shared social interests, fears and goals.

Answer 1

All mainstream news medias are connect to the Counsel of Foreign Relations (CFR). Almost all influential politians are part of the CFR.

They will tell you some news but will not always tell you why it happens.

Read books or do research on the internet. Youtube is actually not a bad source for unbiost documentaries.

Answer 2

They all answer from their own perspective. CNN is liberal,Fox is conservative, MSNBC swings both ways. Watch as many different networks as you can stand then cut what you hear in half and you'll then have half of what you need to know. Ask ten people what they saw at an accident and you'll get ten differnt answers. Ask a liberal he'll blamre it on the "tards" ask a conservative you'll get it's the godless.

Answer 3

true dat BJK~!!!

Answer 4

Absolutely not!  

The news media no longer plays the role of “fourth branch of government”  (that is, it keeps the government in check by asking the important questions and conducting investigative journalism).  There was a time that was somewhat true but it is not so today. The very last round of media merges made possible by the Bush administration was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

The main stream media is owned by a very few corporate giants. Those giants and their major shareholders own other companies that profit from the war and the war on terror. There is cross-over between ownership and boards of directors of media corporations with the corporations that profit directly from war and terror, and globalist think-tanks that influence our foreign policy, and the corrupt Federal Reserve.

There is also cross-over in ownership and board membership with companies that have a direct impact on our health and the food we eat.

Research General Electric for example. Learn what media outlets it owns, and learn what else it owns that profits as a result of war, the war on terror and unstable oil prices. Learn its role as a Pentagon supplier. Worthy of note is General Electric’s ownership of National Geographic. Knowing that GE is a profiteer of war and the war on terror, can we trust its documentaries about those topics? We would be fools to do so.

The role of today's main stream media is to promote government propaganda and corporate interests, at the expense of the people. The media feeds us a version of reality that best suits the profit and power motives of its owners. We must become media wise. Start here:-

General Main Stream Media

http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/...

Focus on US Media

http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/...

For some examples of how the media presents "fake news" to promote corporate interests in a way that makes the reader believe it to be real news, go here and watch the "before and after" clips. These media people are very slick!

http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/findings...

It is now public information that the media conspired with the Pentagon to feed us propaganda to induce support for the Iraq war. A couple of main stream media outlets have now acknowledged that but most of them continue to black out the story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washin...

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/25/pbs-...

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/042...

It gets worse. The reason for embedding journalists during the early stages of the Iraq war was not about safety for journalists. It was to allow the Pentagon to control the message. The disregard for the safety of non-embedded journalists should be an embarrassment for every American. The film linked here, created by a member of the MSM, covers it. It is a must-watch film for any American who wants to avoid being "sold" another war (Iran).

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

We must stop letting the war profiteers spoon fed us the "reality" they require to support their profit and power motives.

How about the recent tomato scare? How many people became sick or died? What is the population of the country relative to the number of people affected? How many people die in car accidents each year? Do we ban cars? If you look at the numbers affected by the tomato “non-crisis”, you can conclude that the story was grossly overblown in the media. Why? Because the chemical companies that stand to profit want to see mandatory food irradiation. More money for them, less nutrition for you. If you don’t believe that food irradiation depletes nutritional value of food, that is your prerogative but I ask you … shouldn’t people able to choose whether they eat irradiated food? If things progress as they are, eventually you won’t have that choice.

The change will have been “voluntary” because the media will have convinced us that food irradiation is necessary to keep us “safe”. In that sense, the food irradiation issue has some elements in common with the war on terror. Your chances of being injured by Arab terrorism are about the same as being struck by lightening, yet the media keeps the war on terror alive daily, both directly and subliminally. Meanwhile, the government continues to introduce more and more legislation restricting civil liberties and privacy, all in the name of keeping you safe from terrorism.

I should add that when I use the term “spreading propaganda”, I also refer to the media practice of failing to disclose important points. What they don’t say is often more important than what they do say.

The corporate media is the greatest threat to democracy this nation has ever seen. Democracy will disappear if we don't wise up to it.

It is also a grave threat to our health because of the way it uses fake news to promote corporate interests at the expense of the health and safety of the people.

Answer 5

You can't believe everything you read and only half of what you see.  To truly be objective, do your own research on matters that are important to you.

Answer 6

I don't think they present the news, honestly OR dishonestly. Instead, we get tons of yack yack yack about what people think about the news, and what's more, this from people whose opinions should carry no more weight than yours and mine.

The same goes for the cable news networks, too, although I will say that I do think CNN makes more of a visible effort to provide actual news and reporting than the others.

Answer 7

Sure.

Why not?

Luke 8.10,17

What do you think?

Answer 8

No, it's impossible.    You only have to look to who they answer to in order to see that.

Network news channels answer to who first?  The companies that own them.....corporations.   Second, they answer to advertisers, who is that?  A bunch of other large corporations.

So, how is network news going to criticize anything to do with these corporations or the politicians which they own?   Even Corporations that don't advertise on the particular network get a pass, cause they don't want their 'style' of reporting to be a threat to the others.  

All the news you see is corporate friendly, and that is why you can't trust the news.   That is why you don't see corporations misguiding our government and destroying the nation.

BTW....the saddest answers to this question will be the 'liberal media' tards.   This is the mantra of the right used to avoid any facts that the non-lock-step-right-wing meda reports.    It's safe to say that anyone who complains about the 'liberal media bias' is very intent on letting no fact alter their beliefs.

Answer 9

If by network you mean, ABC, NBC, and CBS, not the cable news CNN, FAUX, or CNBC.  I think the first three are honest, they just may not tell all sides of a story and not report stories that are counter to what corporate america wants you to know.  But they have to be honest, they cannot afford to be caught lying.

I think CNN is pretty good, still more corporate slant.

Fox (Faux) - is just plain bad, they don't lie blatently and get away with it since it is  only  "opinnion."

CNBC - is a little biased toward the left.  But not as bad as Fox is toward the right.  Half the time they make fun of Fox and show where they are lying or giving spin, or doctoring photos to make people they don't like look like the emperor on star wars, etc.

Answer 10

The 4th estate has sold out!

its all owned by GREED INC.

Just look how much GE alone has control over.