How can we as individuals counter the dominance of the right wing/big business agenda in the news?
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Alternative media... I mean, Christ, if you are still getting news from these Times/Post, Washington Journal sources you should just as well read National Enquirer.\n\nThe mainstream media is a mouthpeice of the administration, gutless, not a freind of the people whatsoever, don't read it.
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E-mail you story to different news stations once people start to hear about this they'll be outraged then you'll have the power of the people and you might be able to get the law changed\n\nP.S.\njust start with getting your story heard
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The media clouds peoples judgment by planting artificial "facts". Does any of us truely read the reports that decisions are made from. No, we merely listen to views from the media. Politicians are in their business for money as we work for money, not all are good not all are bad. I say drop the party lines and get a more independant politician to present moral views.
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The media is suppose to be neutral but it leans everywhere.....
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oh the above post make me sick!!! It is because the mainstream media has a leftist agenda! hollywood is soooooo left! listen to am radio and hear the truth
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Read a lot of business publications. Make sure they are current. The Wall Street Journal is great.
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It is unnecessary to watch Faux News or listen to right wing hate talk radio.\n\nAll one has to do is read the messages posted on the Internet or listen to what their viewers or listeners say, and you will know what they said.\n\nFaux News viewers do not allow their brains to filter the information, they just pass it on as best as they remember it.
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I try to take what the media says with a grain of salt because the media can be very misleading.  There are 5 or 6 major media companies that control all of what we learn about current events, so ultimately they control and decide what we know.  \n\nI try to take both sides into consideration, but, to be honest, sometimes my beliefs stand in my way, just as they would anyone.  I'm not talking about religious beliefs, but more like my viewpoint on abortion and income taxes.  But there was one point in time when I initially made decisions about these things for myself.
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They use words like "The U.S. once again has...." because the U.S. once again HAS...... The media seems to be more to the left because most journalism is liberal. It has to be or it would be judging everybody. O.K. seriously, most mainstream news doesnt report good things because good news isnt interesing. Do you remember when Clinton was in office they were just as rough on him. That is the job of the media, to investigate and report. Maybe it seems they are reporting a lot of bad because there is. If you are looking for righty news try a.m. talk radio stations, its what my husband does.
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This is a horrible situation. If you have solid proff that supports your statements you should be able to find a PR firm that would help you. I work as a PR rep and I know something like this is very costly because of the Crisis Management that will be involved once the story breaks. But if you are only interested in doing a news blast to see if the media is interested in your story, you can also sign up for limited PR services such as news alerts which is about 1/100th less than a full PR service.  I believe that this is important for people to learn about.
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FOX News (Faux News) is the pioneer of trash journalism, and I doubt that they have yet explored the blackness of their depravity. But who I really feel sorry for are the Right Wingers, because FOX does not really care about supporting their agenda. they discovered a market for spewing their jibberish among the Social Conservative base, and are exploiting them by saying just what they want to hear, true or not.  All FOX cares about is selling their product.  Its not news, its not journalism. FOX is the National Inquirer of the television market.  Perhaps some day the Republicans will understand this.
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You'll have to figure it out for yourself, you can't persuade people on a topic you are not 100% convinced of.  You can try picking up a newspaper or magazine and reading stories and thinking about your personal opinion and/or choices on what is going on around the world.
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The simple answer is No.\n\nSeveral groups have done content analysis of the content in fox news reports and have found a right wing bias.
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Sadly there are a lot of people in the US who are influenced by anything the media, Hollywood, and their favorite actor or actress tells them. I don't understand it myself. These people are no smarter than you or I, nor do they have access to information we do not. For example, who declared that Michael Moore was more intelligent or had any more information than anyone else? \n\nPersonally, I like to look at facts and make my own conclusions and I look for signs that the supposed "facts" I'm being shown are skewed to a particular reporter's point of view. Having been a reporter at one time in my life, I know that personal agendas often find their way into "news" reporting, and let's not forget that many of the biggest names in news are folks who grew up and thrived on an anti-government attitude in the 1960's. They may want to recreate the chaos that was the '60's, but I, for one, do not.\n\nThere seems to be a certain cache in being against the establishment. A very small crowd of people have had a disproportionately loud presence in the media, skewing perception of what we Americans really think. I'm a native NY'er. After 9/11 I was SHOCKED at how quickly an entire city full of liberal democrat doves turned into hawks overnight. Ask any of my neighbors. We support the war 100%.\n\nAnyone who has a problem with it is either too stupid and brainwashed to understand that fighting the terrorists there keeps us safer over here, or worse, they simply want their own political power and don't care who they hurt - soldiers or innocent civilians who will be killed without the soldiers' intervention - to attain power for themselves. It's disgusting. \n\nWhen I watch democrats pussyfooting around supporting troops but hating Bush, it makes me sick. For once, do what's best for the country, not what's best for yourselves. The power grab is all too obvious and completely disgusting.\n\nYou're all too right about CNN. They are terrible reporters. Their political preference is ALWAYS readily seen. My family in Europe gets their news about the US from CNN and it is always skewed. To hear them you'd think we were all flag-burning atheists who hate Bush and love Hillary. Ha! Luckily, at least for my family, they can call us and get the real story. I often wonder how such negativism affects the soldiers and I hope and pray they don't take it to heart.\n\nThank God for your husband and the other men like him. Don't listen to the foolish, brainwashed youngsters who believe whatever some uneducated moron in Hollywood tells them or the elites who are only after their own agendas and their own power grabs. Real Americans love our troops and support what they are doing. We understand what is happening and though we keep quiet most of the time and let the press do what it will, we know what they say is a load of crap. Take heart. America supports you.
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Go to your local media, all of them.\nThen go to your nationl media, all of them.\nE-mail every single news agency in the country.\nE-mail the ACLU.\nYou'll probably spark some kind of interest, maybe more!
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there are many different sources of news today: the internet is good because of its immediate nature, tv and newspapers are good because they can provide and in-depth local slant on a story.  but if you try to stay on top of everything, you'll suffer from information overload. \n\nindividually:::if you are asking how to pick and choose between the wide variety, i think a person should take into account the time they have available to digest the news, and what things they feel they need to know.  i've customized my yahoo page to bring up only those sources i trust, so in a sense i've censored myself.  there's too much out there and i feel the need to draw a line.\n\nas a society:::on the other hand if you're asking how much of our national defense policy should we give away, or should we publicize crimes that might incite others to repeat them, then it's a much finer line, with much more at stake.  where does the public's right to know overlap the potential dangers to them?  it can be decided on a case-by-case basis, but do we really trust news editors to make that call for us? they are biased by their own opinions too, so what they want us to see and hear will be colored by that.  credibility is an issue when the media are businesses that exist to make money 1st and report 2nd.  it's small wonder that people view the mass media with more than a little suspicion.
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You can't...İt is not how it works.You can only rely on what the newspapers giving you.They put special equipment to people's houses who are willing to do that for them.That's how they see how many people watch what...