Trying to find non-partisan political information is becoming harder and harder each day. Between what partisan politicians are saying and what the news media decides to print or broadcast, it is difficult for people who want to know what is going on. The endangered species that is fact is disappearing faster than many of the animals that are actually on that list, which is also extremely partisan.
The absence of real hard news, in the press, contributes to the scarcity of information that truly informs. The partisan quotes of one particular party are substituted for the investigation and hard questions that used to provide real news. The two categories of print media, hard news and commentary, have been subsumed under an editorial policy that takes the easy out and merely parrots the one party.
Since non-partisan political information is the statement of facts and what, where, when, why and who is supposed to be the norm, the news is no longer that. Many people are excited about the inclusion of this definite one sided reporting. It does, however, help to color the thoughts of people who go nowhere else for their news.
Simply repeating the words of a politician as being the news fit to print makes the exercise of a First Amendment protected entity a dangerous element of the body politic. This does not matter whether it is a right or left wing elected or appointed person. Politics, for all of its necessity in the debates of the day, do not require the press to bolster one side or the other.
Politicians, of all stripes, will present their talking points and hammer on them. This will rarely be fact based and none of those facts will find their ways to the voters as the media is not interested in them. Asking an elected official a direct question, unlike the press unless they are in the other party, will generate a jumble of words that means little to thinking people.
The almost total absence of common sense facts about gun ownership and crime is a good example. In cities where this second amendment right is actually infringed upon, gun violence is very high. The politicians who have the eyes and ears of the press will tell us all that this is not true. The same politicians who ignore these facts will also emotionalize many other things.
Not being able to contend with all of the facts that are available when you think about it, immigration, for one side, is simply emotional. They will say that we need to make sure they can all partake of the American dream. They will not allow the fact that the illegal immigrants are not following the law and are, thus, illegal to be here. They must emotionalize the issue so there is no rel facts being considered.
No amount of non-partisan political information will counter the partisan stuff that is put out on the airwaves and print media. This is unfortunate as many people will always act in ways that are appropriate if they have the facts. This situation will not get any better until those people stand up and say that there has been enough of this. They must demand that politicians either tell the truth or stay home.
The absence of real hard news, in the press, contributes to the scarcity of information that truly informs. The partisan quotes of one particular party are substituted for the investigation and hard questions that used to provide real news. The two categories of print media, hard news and commentary, have been subsumed under an editorial policy that takes the easy out and merely parrots the one party.
Since non-partisan political information is the statement of facts and what, where, when, why and who is supposed to be the norm, the news is no longer that. Many people are excited about the inclusion of this definite one sided reporting. It does, however, help to color the thoughts of people who go nowhere else for their news.
Simply repeating the words of a politician as being the news fit to print makes the exercise of a First Amendment protected entity a dangerous element of the body politic. This does not matter whether it is a right or left wing elected or appointed person. Politics, for all of its necessity in the debates of the day, do not require the press to bolster one side or the other.
Politicians, of all stripes, will present their talking points and hammer on them. This will rarely be fact based and none of those facts will find their ways to the voters as the media is not interested in them. Asking an elected official a direct question, unlike the press unless they are in the other party, will generate a jumble of words that means little to thinking people.
The almost total absence of common sense facts about gun ownership and crime is a good example. In cities where this second amendment right is actually infringed upon, gun violence is very high. The politicians who have the eyes and ears of the press will tell us all that this is not true. The same politicians who ignore these facts will also emotionalize many other things.
Not being able to contend with all of the facts that are available when you think about it, immigration, for one side, is simply emotional. They will say that we need to make sure they can all partake of the American dream. They will not allow the fact that the illegal immigrants are not following the law and are, thus, illegal to be here. They must emotionalize the issue so there is no rel facts being considered.
No amount of non-partisan political information will counter the partisan stuff that is put out on the airwaves and print media. This is unfortunate as many people will always act in ways that are appropriate if they have the facts. This situation will not get any better until those people stand up and say that there has been enough of this. They must demand that politicians either tell the truth or stay home.
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