Well, in a perfect world, I totally would have time to sit down and watch the 5 or 6 o'clock news. But, unfortuantely, I don't. However, when we (Matt and I) go over to for example, our friend Paul's house, it's so funny because we'll all sit around and watch the news and discuss the world's events. One news show I do always make sure to catch is either The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart or The Colbert Report, with Stephen Colbert. Now, to be perfectly honest when I first watched these shows, I didn't like them because sarcasm is my biggest pet peeve, but then I listened to the message, as opposed to the message that comes from say FOX 2 *cough*republican*cough*. It's very amusing to me that two comedians have gotten to the bottom of more (ie-although this is just one example, all of the U.S. Prosecutors that were fired being like 75% democrat), than any of the other newscasters. Honestly, I truly enjoy these kind of shows now, they get what's in there, out there. And that's the biggest step. My grandparents are HARDCORE REPUBLICAN, therefore, they adore the FOX new station (they live down in Flordia so I don't know if it's channel 2). I can honestly tell you that they firmly believe, and will fight you on it, that we found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That's because 4 years ago, when "the search" was going on, it was the darling Republicans of FOX news that claimed that they had found weapons of mass destruction in multiple trailers. This was all an unbelievably well used scare tactic. I have told them personally that I would send them the actual video footage of Bush and Cheney saying that it was a "mix-up" and that they never did really find anything, and they STILL don't believe me. I know what I'm watching, and I know it's kind of hypocritical and all, to talk about a Republican biased news station while I watch a Democrat biased news station, but what to do when you've found that the leader of your nation has lied to us all.
Another news station I like that I think is pretty fair, now mind you, I haven't gotten in depth depth with it, is MSNBC, it just kind of seems like it gets it all out on the table. I also really like a show they have on there quite often call LOCKED UP, and they do it on a different prison every time.
I also watch The Soup :) with Joel McHale, but I guess that's not news News
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Yeah, I don't think that any news channel is as we might call reliable. The biases get in the way of many newsworthy stories from not being aired or investigated. Are we getting the whole picture or are we being brainwashed by watching television?
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