Anybody else aggravated by a news agency constantly trying to belittle us?

[KatieSC]

I see another negative article by a news agency that talks about a “biological male” winning a golf tournament. They were talking about a trans woman who transitioned 8 years ago.

 

I am so fed up with their negative BS. Anybody else tired of these clowns engaging in this crap?

[awkward-yet-sweet]

I pay little attention to the media.  They are only important in their own minds, and I try to make sure they are not important to me.  In my family we don't have television - no satellite, no cable, no streaming service.  I read news articles on the internet, and I might occasionally listen to FM radio while driving, but I don't spend much time on it.  Reducing media consumption really increases life quality and contentment.... if it is tiresome and irritating, just turn it off.  

 

FOX is nothing but Neocon political invective.  Other major networks spend way too much time focusing on music and entertainment, which are mostly irrelevant to us here in flyover country.  And while lots of people care about sports, I have no interest in reading about it or listening to it.  NPR is so out-to-lunch we actually listen to it for comedy.....I find myself wondering WHAT PLANET these media people live on. 

[VickySGV]

1 hour ago, KatieSC said:

I am so fed up with their negative BS. Anybody else tired of these clowns engaging in this crap?

 

In which case it is NOT a news agency, it is a propaganda mill of the same sort as brewers of cheap beer and wines who are trying to intoxicate a certain group of readers who do not really care as long as they are comfortable in their mindlessness.

 

[awkward-yet-sweet]

3 minutes ago, VickySGV said:

In which case it is NOT a news agency, it is a propaganda mill

 

A good description of the entire media establishment.  We don't have news...if we ever actually did. 

[Sally Stone]

Can you just imagine a story reported this way: "Woman wins golf tournament," or "Tans woman wins golf tournament."  The first headline, of course, would be much ado about nothing.  The second, well, it would still be a mostly benign headline, not nearly attention grabbing enough to be considered noteworthy. 

 

Entertainment news creates attention grabbing spin to try and make the things they report seem interesting.  "Woman wins golf tournament" really has no hope of grabbing attention.  And while some entertainment news agencies do have an agenda directed at the trans community, I honestly think most use outrageous comments to do nothing more than get attention.

 

Sadly, we are used too often for the sake of TV ratings and market share.     

[KayC]

Unfortunately this is the way to make $$$ for much of the Mainstream Media.  That’s how they keep their ratings and advertising $$$ to keep rolling in so they can continue to believe they are mainstream.

It’s actually up the the viewers (public) to change their tastes in what is ‘newsworthy’ before it will change.  They only suggestion I can give is to change the channel.

[KatieSC]

15 hours ago, VickySGV said:

 

In which case it is NOT a news agency, it is a propaganda mill of the same sort as brewers of cheap beer and wines who are trying to intoxicate a certain group of readers who do not really care as long as they are comfortable in their mindlessness.

 

Another one of those crazy historical coincidences I suppose. Some of our biggest detractors have their own propaganda network. Here is a link that gives me goose bumps: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ministry-of-propaganda-and-public-enlightenment