kittibob wrote:
I'm a lefty who watches Fox News on occasion out of curiosity. I've watched Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly. If you believe those guys that explains why you are so misinformed. When I was growing up we got our news from the local paper and our information from the likes of Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. We were divided on how to approach things such as taxes, social programs, military interventions, and emotions could run high. We bitterly disagreed on Vietnam, for example. The difference is that we all based our arguments on the same facts. There was one set of facts. Rush Limbaugh was the first to spew hatred and misinformation. Remember the "Homeless update" where he made fun of the homeless with the Frogman Henry song? Rush is the one who divided this nation and Fox News came along with their version of "facts" while spewing hatred against the liberals. Right wing media invented misinformation, division and hatred in this nation, at least in my lifetime. The left and the right disagree. Those of us on the left are as patriotic as any of you on the right. To say otherwise is childish and ignorant. I like to read the opinions on One Political Plaza, as I like to read opinions from both sides. However name calling and hate filled rants seem to be more prevalent than ideas or opinions. That's a shame, as we can do better.
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It seems that the news programs you refer to back in the 70's and 80's have given way to opinion programs on both sides of the spectrum. I have tuned into MSNBC and CNN occasionally as well and see programs like Joy Reid and Joe in the AM and Rachel Maddow and others and I can't believe what I am seeing. Fox is the same way on the right. Bret Baier provides a more unbiased news program which I consider to be more like the older ones you refer to. As I see it, there are many reasons for the departure from true news shows to the opinion shows. I believe much of it is due to the way Colleges have moved to the left in their philosophy toward education. God has been left out more and more in the education of our youth and it seems it is not so much just a ho-hum view like take Him or leave Him but more of an antagonism or even a war to exclude any mention of Him from life, often on the basis of the excuse of freedom of religion which has really turned into freedom from religion, unless it is muslim or another weird belief. We are paying the price for this movement and it isn't going to be cheap. Not all of the movement toward Godlessness is confined to the news media, most of it is reflected in the way the general population has responded to the changes in education standards and efforts. I believe the belief is that it is good to go that way instead of towards what the traditional Christian teachings have been over the years. If one likes what he sees in the world today, that is undoubtedly the way he will go. Personally, I don't like it.