[jonathan180iq]

It just so happens that this event occurs as I am in the midst of watching all of the conspiracy documentaries on Netflix. (Not because I am theorist, but because I want to see why people think and believe what they believe.)

If nothing else, it has made me more acutely aware of how media coverage works in this country and how the average member of the populace will quickly show their prejudices because of it. It's not surprising really, since most people garner their pop-culture education from the very media that I'm talking about. If your educator only presents things in one way, then the educated will only learn one way to perceive and think about things. It's not like our modern culture promotes critical thinking or anything the requires deeper thought to begin with...

I'm not picking on any network in particular, but as far as journalism goes, I do find it interesting that our main news outlets have slogans. Fox News, for example, goes by the slogan "We report. You decide." In journalism, reporting is based simply on fact. The popularity of the presentation of that fact is based on the charisma of the individual presenter, not on the philosophical pandering to a certain segment of the populace. But that's that all we have in mainstream presentation. Fox, CNN, MSNBC... Hell even the local news stations have changed their formats to garner more viewership.

I know I'm just rambling. The point is that we shouldn't forget that the news channels no longer exists to present the information. They exist for entertainment. They are little more than unscripted reality TV, that also sometimes have scripts...

NOTE: This is an Off-topic chit chat, and I would like to see this conversation develop. But we have to keep it civil.