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In reply to the discussion: The rush to judgement on Franken has BACKFIRED causing more problems in the party. DUMB CALL! [View all]SergeStorms
(19,200 posts)when news organizations had people called "journalists", who would actually investigate the veracity of a story before reporting on it!
Can you imagine that?
When the main stream media transformed from actual journalism to a variety entertainment show (the FOX Noise effect), their usefulness as a reliable resource for facts plummeted. If you want to watch a variety show with bits of unsubstantiated political information sprinkled in, then by all means, watch the main stream media for entertainment purposes only.
If you want facts, you're far, far better off reading a reputable foreign news service, who doesn't have a monetary or political dog in any of the hunts on which it reports. They're funded by anonymous individual donors; not parent networks, left or right-wing "think" tanks, or oligarchs looking for a friendly voice for hire. They are independent, as it should be when truth matters, and the truth always matters.