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Originally Posted by sjh
Gosh I sure I hope I'm not touching a tar baby here. 
The few times I have chosen to not encounter someone here is because they did not wish to engage in civil discourse, not because I did not wish to debate them.
And you know, when you are closer in age to 100 than you are to your own birth, people questioning your manhood doesn't do much anymore.
I actually am in close agreement with a number (not all) of your perspectives but am uncomfortable with your manner.
There have been three times this morning I thought about putting you on my very short list but kept on backing away.
Oh well. On to the next round. |
I took offense to two of my posts being singled out and not the large number of others who said and did far worse.
I respect people that might not agree with me...but don't have to resort to name calling etc.....but I will sling mud back if someone slings it at me first.
And people that get all their information from the TV, the newspaper or the radio contrary to their opinion are misinformed. And they have zero idea how often or how much.....yet they are quick with the name calling.
DO the work I've done the last 30 years and the only thing you see on the news you don't question is the weather....and the cooking segments. Everything else amounts to being what they want you to hear....not necessarily exactly what happened as they claimed.
Because of what you see, overhear or sometimes are actually at before the reporters put their spin on it, You see this bias.
I obviously can't repeat most things....but I can give an example of a shooting that happened in Baltimore on the inner harbor before it was developed.in the early 80's...I saw the guys fight...I watched the guy pull out a colt 45 and shoot the guy in the chest, I was 20 feet away at the time watched the whole thing..... I saw the cops come I saw them take the guy away in the ambulance....I saw the reaction of the people in the area.
I also saw EVERY tv station in the DC area report on it....NONE got it right....most never even named the right motorcycle clubs....only one even got ONE club name right...apparently if you believed the news there was a riot....which was news to everyone there.....three guys having a fight doesn't constitute a riot. Never mind the fact the police showed up 20 minutes after the ambulance left.....and an hour and a half later....there were no reporters or tv crews in the area.. YET. The cops were long gone when they finally got there
That was my first taste of how often the news isn't what happened in reality.
And they ALL put a spin on it.... unbiased reporter is another oxymoron.