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GENERAL => Right to Keep and Bear Arms => Topic started by: crosstimbers on January 26, 2021, 12:09:30 AM
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I hope this isnt some kind of major no-no, but I just wonder if anyone else is feeling like I am about something
Anybody else avoid watching the news (other than the weather) like the plague? The news is almost all bad, and what it portends for our freedom to own and carry firearms is my main concern. I know that we have to stay informed and I do, but it occurs to me that the only time I really tune in to the news is to see the weather forecast....and I try like heck to weed out anything else in order to watch only that (DVR)
Just wondering who might feel as I do.
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Haven’t watched it in 5 years.
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Watch it every day and listen to talk radio as well. Not going to stop paying attention just because I don't like what's happening.
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After ignoring the news for a while as little more than political theater, I have settled on Reuters and BBC as my primary news sources, though they don’t give me any local news. I will occasionally foray to what I consider to be far left and right to see the contrast in reporting. I find I like the WSJ as well; definitely conservative but not outrageously so IMHO.
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I haven’t purposely watched lamestream media in the past 10 years.
Too much obfuscation, slanting and outright lies - not enough truth.
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I hope this isnt some kind of major no-no, but I just wonder if anyone else is feeling like I am about something
Anybody else avoid watching the news (other than the weather) like the plague? The news is almost all bad, and what it portends for our freedom to own and carry firearms is my main concern. I know that we have to stay informed and I do, but it occurs to me that the only time I really tune in to the news is to see the weather forecast....and I try like heck to weed out anything else in order to watch only that (DVR)
Just wondering who might feel as I do.
I do the same exact thing. I record the local news and my wife always asks me why I forward it and not listen to other news.
I told her listening to them just gives me a headache except for the weather report.
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You have to spend so much time wading through junk to get to the truth anymore. I stay informed to things I care about through epoch times, Fox, oan, daily wire, and whatever else gets shared locally or regarding the second amendment. For all things second amendment “guns and gadgets” Jared over there on YouTube is the king. Covers the whole nation extremely well everything related to 2a!
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Watch it every day and listen to talk radio as well. Not going to stop paying attention just because I don't like what's happening.
If I felt like I was actually staying informed by watching, rather than merely being subjected to propaganda...I might agree. But "news" that is often so slanted that the truth is lost isnt keeping me clued in...its just irritating me.
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Reporters have become commentators ! Staying informed requires sifting through hours of slanted opinion to get a hint of what is actually going on these days. After watching all the political nonsense, I need a show like "Leave it to Beaver" to remind me what adult leadership looks like !
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Thats just it, if watching the news amounted to something beyond politically biased torment, it might be worth enduring even when it wasnt what I like to hear or see. But with every single story there is more spin than substance. I can keep up with the bare basics of things going on by skimming online news, which beats listening to something that you cant just skip past.
Even Fox has gotten bad. They were never anything besides a bit more centrist than the rest, and they certainly have more attractive women anchors and reporters than the others. But its still just a mental flogging to sit through unless I have it recorded so I can skip by the garbage and watch the forecast.
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Kind of funny what's being said here like it's anything new. I'm not sure we ever had an honest media. This bias goes back many decades. Walter Cronkite was a douche in the first degree. Anyone remember him proclaiming "THIS WAR IS LOST" in the midst of the Vietnam war? I do and I wasn't even in kindergarten when he said it.
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Kind of funny what's being said here like it's anything new. I'm not sure we ever had an honest media. This bias goes back many decades. Walter Cronkite was a douche in the first degree. Anyone remember him proclaiming "THIS WAR IS LOST" in the midst of the Vietnam war? I do and I wasn't even in kindergarten when he said it.
That was a few years before my time. My earliest media memories begin in the post-Watergate era. However, I agree with your assessment. The media was never honest. Also, I don't just mean the news media, I mean all of it. TV, radio, and print journalism, as well as movies and shows that were supposedly created strictly for entertainment purposes. Go back and watch the stuff with a critical eye, and you will find propaganda in the obvious places, i.e. shows like All In The Family, and even more wholesome looking shows like Andy Griffith or Leave It To Beaver. Same goes for cartoons, comic books, and similar material that was marketed to children.
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There are people in federal admin and media who do not care about the Right to Bear Arms. Media in my opinion may become more slanted to provide propaganda that most citizens will not feel what is happening. I am a military vet during Vietnam era but I saw a fence between West and East Germany and I was not allowed to get near Berlin. I have started to contact US rep and my state representative recently in 2021 but in the past week about potential bills to be presented in a sneaky way could change some gun related laws. I will not post the bill number here but comments were made. I will be looking for sneaky anti gun language that calls pistol magazines an accessory when another sentence introduced calls that the pistol will work without an accessory (which means a magazine). I do not trust the media in general. I do not want the Second Amendment or Right to Bear Arms language to be changed by leftest thinkers or those that think that changes will make us more safe. I was emailed the language or reference about media and contacting political reps by a state certified License to Carry (LTC) instructor before I started doing my own research. I probably should not mention the names of some people still in office such as a speaker or the house (a woman) and also a man. They and others do not want us to have firearms. The subject line was about media. The media seems to dwell on topics for too long while crime goes up and the borders seem to be easier to enter as some people say. Some of the media in my opinion talks too much about nothing important but political conservative people are getting slammed.
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The MSN is one the greatest enemies our country has.
They should be ashamed of themselves but I don’t think they have any.
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Kind of funny what's being said here like it's anything new. I'm not sure we ever had an honest media. This bias goes back many decades. Walter Cronkite was a douche in the first degree. Anyone remember him proclaiming "THIS WAR IS LOST" in the midst of the Vietnam war? I do and I wasn't even in kindergarten when he said it.
Yeah. I remember the Viet era story during Tet about the Saigon Police Chief shooting the VC in the head, and the way that the media so soulfully went on to say "and he is STILL the police chief" (insert whimpering and hand-wringing) though they never mentioned what the man's family had suffered.
So, actually there isnt anything funny about it,... it's merely an open discussion of media hype, and how it affects our firearms freedoms. Which I have been fully aware of I imagine as long as you have. I wasnt in Kindergarden then either, though I was young enough to (just barley) miss that war.
But yes, the media has been lying wholesale for over a generation....and our freedoms are at stake. Like a certain retiring SCOTUS Justice who went on to say that "while serving in the militia" should have been added to the text of the second amendment...even though writings of the founders prove that such distinction wasnt their intent
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Anyone who puts down the mainstream media, then resorts to getting “news” from far right or far left alternative news sites, has more than doubled down on the “fake-ness” that they despise... You only migrated to “news” that cranked up the lies that agree with your political sensibilities.
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Anyone who puts down the mainstream media, then resorts to getting “news” from far right or far left alternative news sites, has more than doubled down on the “fake-ness” that they despise... You only migrated to “news” that cranked up the lies that agree with your political sensibilities.
Yeah this is true but I challenge you to name a source with a straight face that you think is not biased. The best anyone can do is watch both sides and decide for themselves what they believe. I watch both sides but for me there's not a single idea I've seen on the left that I can get behind.
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Anyone who puts down the mainstream media, then resorts to getting “news” from far right or far left alternative news sites, has more than doubled down on the “fake-ness” that they despise... You only migrated to “news” that cranked up the lies that agree with your political sensibilities.
I dont decide what to think based on ANY news source. I look and see whats happening and decide for myself. Any news source dispenses material that requires one to separate the fact from fiction, and the substance from the spin.
That being said the "mainstream media" has mostly become nothing more than a propaganda mill, so they rightly deserve to be "put down". No argument about various extremist news sources.
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It is really sad. I remember in the 50s and early 60s what the news said was typically gospel and at least fact checked. May have gone south during vietnam era and down hill from there.
On the other hand the weather seemed to be almost as accurate when they where not all "meteorologists" but rather weathermen basically telling us what was west of us yesterday will be here today.
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I hope this isnt some kind of major no-no, but I just wonder if anyone else is feeling like I am about something
Anybody else avoid watching the news
Yes. National news for YEARS. Local news since last March.
With Perry Mason on 6x a day, I've got NO TIME for the MEDIA PANDEMONIUM VIRUS RUNNING DEATH COUNT!!! ::)