Are you a skeptic? Not a conspiracy theorist (a group of people who are at best singularly informed and at worst, nuts) - but a skeptic.
Me too. A sometime cynic, but most often skeptic. I mean, really, could YOU send your gold jewelry off to somebody you saw on TV and really expect to get back what you deserve? Well, maybe in a sense you would...but anyway....
Lots of people are media skeptics - and with good reason. Especially in this day and age where even the major news organizations are relying on people's cell phone videos and twitter posts to bring you the news. Hell, I'm a media skeptic and I'm IN it!
Check out http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/ . Seems at first blush to be pretty fairminded in it's examination of media shenanigans and inadequacies.
In fairness to the current state of journalism, however, this is what you're going to get when the profit is more important than the product. Ratings, web visits, and circulation rule. So you're either doing stories the masses will watch (lowest common denominator stuff), or you're doing whatever you can (what's convenient) because of a lack of staffing.
And the band played on......
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