In an ideal world, large news reporters would not have agendas. It's evident that they do though. This goes beyond Trump and the fake news mantras. Facts are twisted by news organizations to fit a narrative in order to form desired opinion. This quote from George Orwell on his experience in the Spanish civil war might help:Hi HIS,
Well, I'd agree somewhat that a lot of mass media is pre-packaged to some extent. A lot of sources piggyback off of other sources, but...
I'm not so much in agreement that it's written to elicit some 'planned reaction'. I still believe that by and large news reporters, esp. those with the major news sources, take their responsibility seriously. Are the sources sometimes tainted? Maybe. One can only trust sources up to a point and I would imagine that if there's any 'seeking to elicit some planned response', that would likely be an agenda of the source and not the reporter.
I think the one most often seeking to 'elicit some planned response' is Donald Trump in declaring that all news that doesn't seem to agree with his reality is 'fake news'. But that's only because I believe he's quite the story teller.
But each one believes what they believe.
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In Christ, ted
“I remember saying once to Arthur Koestler, ‘History stopped in 1936’, at which he nodded in immediate understanding. We were both thinking of totalitarianism in general, but more particularly of the Spanish civil war. Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’.”
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