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RE: Ellen Suggests It Is Okay To Be Kind To Someone You Disagree With...
One of the factors is that we have 2 different sets of News, neither is actually news, but rather propaganda. If I decide to watch a story on one or the other station... I watch the other side too.
Sometimes it is hard to imagine it is the same story. People watch their side, and think it is the Truth and wonder what the other side is thinking.... It's all a spin.
I hear you... Many of us have just dropped out of the conversation.
I would like to point out that recent political debates on steem have impacted witnesses and their votes and those arguing are not even in the US. :) So, yeah it's crazy.
Yes - the extreme opposite stories told by the two sets of 'news' sites is mindblowing. In the Netherlands we have some form of independent journalism that isn't 'niche blog' but actually funded by their readers and by their readers only. That helps me get some perspective over here - they are trying to set up in the US too, when they do I'll share it so people on your side of the globe might have an alternative to read :-)
The recent witness voting/unvoting has opened my eyes too. Anyone who is playing that game is childish and doesn't deserve my vote now or in the future. I don't have to pick sides to just decide that they are all 'doing it wrong' :') That's not what witness voting is for.
I don't mind that the political parties can have their own shows but they should not brand them news. Maybe political slant or something. lol
I thought most of our news here in SA was at least to a degree independent, but it turns out it rarely is, and it's like that in most places. That's just because of how information works, not because journalists are bias and picking a specific side. The majority of major news companies in the US, do tend to lean more left, on the other side it's basically Fox and a hand full of publications. So when journalists pick up news coming from the States the narrative is kind of one sided, purely because of the majority consensus. A good example of this would be the news of the PS5 that came out yesterday, only one journalist spoke to CEO of Sony, every news article across the world in based on that one source. Now if there was conflicting information, most would just go with the majority. Also let's not forget the entire business model is based on clicks, which doesn't help.