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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
The newspaper I now subscribe to is the Washington Post, although until a few months ago I also subscribed to the New York Times. All I mobileread on Kindle. That's my mainstream media. (It also used to include papers ranging from the LA Times to the Chicago Tribune to even the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but their newsrooms have been so horribly cut that we are down to just a couple papers with substantial national and international bureaus.)
You certainly could be right about that radio station or network, and might want to name it rather than make broad-brush accusations.
I googled what is in quotation marks. Google returned:
Perhaps this was on the radio only. But please provide the source.
If you don't have it, or your quotations are really paraphrases, why should I trust what you are saying more than Bob Woodward?
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I quoted examples only, the practices I describe are widespread in the media. As I said I could go on forever giving them (but I won't). And I can relate much worse such as their pretty much destroying the short term prospectss of 2 company executives (accused of colluding to award a 9 figure contract to their own preferred contractor rather than by fair comparison) simply by the media running with a story that sold rather than taking the trouble of seeking out the facts which would have left them with no story. This was not in my own country but I was working in the organization with complete visibility of the real situation.
My experiences with the media are first hand (i.e. I have detailed knowledge of the actual events through being present) in 2 countries. I visit many news sites in my own country, Australia, the UK (predominantly the BBC), and a number in the USA. I have travelled to work in a number of countries many times, including the USA, those in Europe, Australia and the Pacific and see their media. They all run the same practices.
I am not going to specifically accuse either people or organizations here as you request I do, nor identify the organizations and people misrepresented by the media, I am not that type. But I know that much of what I say is widely suspected as being as it is, even by people with no first hand media experience, because all the surveys of trustworthiness I have seen place journalists with a few others at the very lowest levels - you can chose to be one of the minority if you wish.
In the end it does not matter at all to me if you disregard what I have stated as being broad brush so not useful, or just waffle until I prove otherwise. I am surprised that you think it should matter to me.