Originally posted by generalissimoYou act like it's some sort of complex conflict. Truth is, it's the oppressor and the oppressed. No different than Hitler's Germany or Peter's Russia or Stalin's USSR.
Im not a zionist.
Im not pro-jewish nor anti-jewish.
Israel has become an established state, I understand its actions.
your claim shows how you have a black and white point of view.
I never said anything about Jewish.
Originally posted by scherzoyou called me a zionist, that was a very simple-minded ''you're not with us, you're against us'' sort of accusation.
You act like it's some sort of complex conflict. Truth is, it's the oppressor and the oppressed. No different than Hitler's Germany or Peter's Russia or Stalin's USSR.
I never said anything about Jewish.
Originally posted by KazetNagorraAll TV broadcast "news" is suspect these days. Well, with the possible exception of the Daily Show, which is a fairly reliable news source ...
Don't you mean you don't want to watch a channel which doesn't explicitly express your own views?
It was such a pleasure during the inauguration to switch from CNN and from MSNBC and from PBS and from Fox to CSPAN and watch proceedings without constant, mindless, vacuous commentary from announcers and talking heads.
As a former managing editor of a legal publication, I've 15 years of experience in reporting and editing news according to strict, adjective-free for-the-record journalism. I don't see that kind of journalism in print or in broadcasts anymore.
I've a lot of friends in the field. One of them, a top investigative reporter for USA Today, one of the very few left, has complained for a long time about corporate cutbacks that make it impossible for journalists to cover the news properly. There is also a clear, corporate agenda based on market research -- who the particular media outlet intends to sell stuff to.
There are also clearly political affiliations and funding behind several of the major news outlets.
One needs a lot of salt to sprinkle about on just about every source of news these days. It is only by looking at good aggregator sites like Real Clear Politics that one sees enough coverage from all sorts of sources to sift and eventually gain a sense of where the mid point closest to what actually happened might be.
There is much too much opinion and not enough of what used to be known as "straight news."
Originally posted by ScriabinI can only hope this trend doesn't spread to here.
All TV broadcast "news" is suspect these days. Well, with the possible exception of the Daily Show, which is a fairly reliable news source ...
It was such a pleasure during the inauguration to switch from CNN and from MSNBC and from PBS and from Fox to CSPAN and watch proceedings without constant, mindless, vacuous commentary from announcers and talking ...[text shortened]... here is much too much opinion and not enough of what used to be known as "straight news."