A serious issue with regard to the administration's stance on the media is that there is no amount of investigation that will change their rhetoric. If the actual facts don't line up with their agenda, they're "alternative", period. There is nothing short of towing the current administration's line that the media can do to be "unbiased".
On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, Forrest Christian (List Account) < li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > I'm going to post at the top of this thread because I don't want to be > drawn into any particular part of this drama. > > Everyone needs to step back, take a breath, and realize that none of us > have the entire picture. > > Trump spews that Obama and/or Hillary or the Democrats or someone else is > behind everything - yet refuses to provide any proof. It's just pull a > possible fact out of thin air and state it authoritatively. Maybe it's > true. Maybe it's not. Maybe Trump knows something we don't. Who Knows? > Trump believers believe he is almost always stating the truth. Trump > detractors believe he is almost always lying. I'm not going to include > where I fall on my set of beliefs in this discussion. > > The media is no better: They take trump sound bites and blow it out of > proportion. True Investigative reporting is mostly dead in this country. > Instead it's all based on 160 characters here and 160 characters there. > Everything is slanted one way or another. If you're a Trump supporter you > tend to watch media which slants stuff trump, and if you're a Trump > detractor you tend to watch media which slants stuff the other way, which > reinforces one's beliefs. > > We have entered into a realm where belief in something being true seems > more important than the actual facts. People's beliefs are based on a > soundbyte here and a soundbyte there or a tweet here and a tweet there. > And when the soundbytes are suspect, then everyone's beliefs are suspect. > > I have grave concerns about some of the directions the Trump > admininistration appears to be taking us, and yet am excited about some of > the other things trump is trying to do. > > We all need to do a better job of trying to look beyond the soundbytes and > tweets and get to to the underlying issues here. Unfortunately, there > doesn't seem to be an easy way to get there since the traditional media > seems to be part of the problem... > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Jaime Solorza <losguyswirel...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','losguyswirel...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> https://news.google.com/news/amp?caurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill. >> com%2Fpolicy%2Fdefense%2F321614-trump-appears-to- >> place-blame-on-generals-for-seal-killed-in-yemen-raid%3Famp#pt0-72526 >> > > > > -- > *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* > Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 > forre...@imach.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','forre...@imach.com');> | > http://www.packetflux.com > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> > <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> > >
