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    From Tony@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, May 09, 2026 19:51:12
    https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2026/05/perspective-with-heather-du-plessis_9.html
    I hope she is correct, bring it on.

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  • From Crash@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, May 16, 2026 14:38:56
    On Sat, 9 May 2026 19:51:12 -0000 (UTC), Tony
    <lizandtony@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

    https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2026/05/perspective-with-heather-du-plessis_9.html
    I hope she is correct, bring it on.


    Balanced news reporting died with the advent of social media. Before
    social media came to life, political views were forged by the daily
    newspaper and the daily TV news. That was very small doses.

    The reality is that journalists, like everyone else under 30 or so,
    have grown up in a world that includes social media for at least a
    major part of their lives. That is a world of forming political views
    based on debate where everything written is a personal viewpoint never
    intended to be balanced. Once a journalist gets into this habit,
    balanced reporting from them is no longer possible.

    There is an upside of this - readers can deliberately choose to read
    articles from journalists of various biases. That is what I do.


    --
    Crash McBash

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  • From greybeard@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 14:26:20
    On 19/05/2026 19:59, Willy Nilly wrote:
    On Sat, 16 May 2026, Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> wrote:
    Balanced news reporting died with the advent of social media. Before
    social media came to life, political views were forged by the daily
    newspaper and the daily TV news. That was very small doses.

    Nonsense, "balanced news reporting" died when universities started
    churning out journalism graduates. Before that, many/most reporters
    were feet-on-the-ground realists. But even 150 years ago, Mark Twain evaluated newspapers as "misinformation", and generals banned
    reporters from army bases, etc. So it's an open question, when. But
    social media provide a much-needed balance to what was before.





    "The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not
    a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for
    faggots and misfits - a false doorway to the backside
    of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by
    the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino
    to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp
    in a zoo-cage."

    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.





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