Deacsfan27
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I've been thinking about this a lot and posted a couple of times on it, but wanted to get some discussion going on it.
What is the role of the media in covering the news and this election? Is it to provide an unbiased, completely independent view of what's going on (to the best of the ability to be a completely neutral broadcast), or is it to provide some context to what is being said, and analyze those things based on objective facts/truths?
Obviously if the latter is chosen it somewhat depends on your political stance as to whether or not the news is a viable source? While there have been lying politicians in the past, Donald Trump has really changed the way that news is being reported because a lot of his statements have absolutely no basis in truth at all, with a majority of things that he says being outright lies.
Is the media responsible for reporting "fairly" on each candidate, even if there is one side who is blatantly making things up and presenting a clear danger for America if elected? Obviously I am extremely anti-Trump, so I feel that the media is doing its job in exposing the lunatic that he is, but I am also aware that this is a slippery slope because what if in the future this was being done to candidates who the station just opposes (as a lot of people already think is done towards Republicans).
A lot of thoughts in there, but wanted to open up a thread to discuss this as a whole and what the media should actually be doing in an election like this.
What is the role of the media in covering the news and this election? Is it to provide an unbiased, completely independent view of what's going on (to the best of the ability to be a completely neutral broadcast), or is it to provide some context to what is being said, and analyze those things based on objective facts/truths?
Obviously if the latter is chosen it somewhat depends on your political stance as to whether or not the news is a viable source? While there have been lying politicians in the past, Donald Trump has really changed the way that news is being reported because a lot of his statements have absolutely no basis in truth at all, with a majority of things that he says being outright lies.
Is the media responsible for reporting "fairly" on each candidate, even if there is one side who is blatantly making things up and presenting a clear danger for America if elected? Obviously I am extremely anti-Trump, so I feel that the media is doing its job in exposing the lunatic that he is, but I am also aware that this is a slippery slope because what if in the future this was being done to candidates who the station just opposes (as a lot of people already think is done towards Republicans).
A lot of thoughts in there, but wanted to open up a thread to discuss this as a whole and what the media should actually be doing in an election like this.