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hunter

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5. Television news is garbage.

Reply to Proud liberal 80 (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 05:34 PM

Jun 2020

It always has been. Sorry, Walter Cronkite. (My apologizes for the rest are sparse. Even Rachel.)

Television is the worst possible medium for news and opinion. Radio is second. Gossip is third. Reading is fourth.

Critical thinking skills are first learned by reading. If people can't apply critical thinking skills to reading they'll never apply them to television or radio.

The most primitive parts of the human mind can't distinguish between television and reality.

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Breaking News [View all] Proud liberal 80 Jun 2020 OP

Now it means "The commercials are over, here's some opinions" on Fox. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2020 #1

Hate to say it, cnn does it too soothsayer Jun 2020 #3

Yeah Proud liberal 80 Jun 2020 #4

CNN broke it NRaleighLiberal Jun 2020 #2

Television news is garbage. hunter Jun 2020 #5

We were talking about this -- Breaking News is pretty much every single story now lettucebe Jun 2020 #6