What’s your brand of news?

This post is from the user point of view. We all know or think the media is prejudiced in its reporting. Most think the prejudice is in political skewing. Some others, of which I am one, think too many young “journalists” have been led astray by academia in its influence on later job reporting with an emphasis on emotional influence or just driving up business profits. The trends are that these students are slowly losing their jobs after school while their academic professors go on to well paid retirements. What a classical generational screw job.

So what is your brand of the news these days. Is it still mainstream media, albeit with your filters on, blogs, some of which seem to have good intel type sources, or TV, as in the three main USA networks, or even the cable 24/7 networks. Add in the government funded news through BBC and NPR and PBS, or even the local TV jobs which have come along in the last 20 years or so. That’s about it, and compared to the rest of the world, we are probably the best informed news junkies in the world.

But do we know the news to our satisfaction? The real question is: do we know the constructed news or the real news? Most certainly we know the reporter’s opinion of the news. In this is the change from the past. In the past we could seek opinions in an opinion section, and we could seek the news in the news section. When apparently a whole industry changed to opinion writing and opinion TV appearances, and again I blame academia, much of the American public turned off. No amount of most of the media living in New York and D.C. with all the terrible peer pressure, can change what I think academia and the industry has done. Add in Democratic Party thought control and censorship about debate (and I though Galileo had it bad) and the times are difficult and dangerous to the thoughtful citizen in these times of the politics of personal destruction.