Absolutely CanMan very well spoken!!!


As for me: Some things I am content not knowing all the unanswered questions to, and others I simlpy can not rest until I do know the answer. It depends on the topic at hand and where it stands on "my" list of important topics! To be perfectly honest many things the politicians and news casters are rambling on and on about, I couldn't give a darn about. I believe they try and instill fear, and guilt, and lack of hope into their viewing audiences.

Exactly, Cathy- and every now and then I find myself cussing at Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper and asking, "WHY do you want me to care about THIS? Stop ranting about it, already! Can't you see I'm not buying it?" I think I first felt this way about the Monica Lewinsky crap. I absolutely resented the news outlets forcing me to think I should give a damn about that whole whacked-out mess. I wasn't telling Wolf and Anderson what I was doing in MY bedroom (or MY oval office!) and I resented them repeatedly telling me what Bill was doing in HIS! I hated that whole thing being shoved down my throat, so to speak! (Lordy THAT was BAD! Will this line even make it past the CENSORS? mama?)

If you really want to understand how little news coverage counts, nowadays, here a little experiment.

Keep your newspapers for six months. Or, for those who think what CNN does is news, tape the shows, and store them for six months. Either way, review them.

It's incredible how many burning issues, concerns that will effect the future of the world, cease to have any meaning in only half a year.

Chubby: In all due respect, the only thing Anderson Cooper want's you to care about is Anderson Cooper. Even within the oxymoronic context of broadcast journalism, he's the sorriest excuse for a reporter I've ever seen.

KYH- I rarely hear a word Anderson says! (uh-Huuum! Ha!)

I watch both CNN and FOX and STILL feel like I have to wring and twist the reports of both and supplement them with a heaping dose of my own common sense before I believe much of what either has to say- but the sad part is, I feel I must take the time to watch BOTH to get a more accurate view.

I am made up of a healthy amount of both liberal and conservative leanings and in my middle-of-the-road view, FOX is the absolute MOST biased of anything anywhere. What gets ME is they're not even subtle about it- but then when they're confronted in it, the bold-face LIE and say they're balanced... HOG-WASH! At least CNN is polite about it's liberalism. FOX News to me is an INSULT, but again, I feel I need a touch of them both added to my mix of news simply to get a clearer perspective of the "truth".

For my money, even though PBS itself has a very liberal reputation, the fairest news reporting I see on television is Jim Lehrer's news hour- and I also really like Gwen Ifill, too. I don't sense Jim feels he owes anything to anybody and I trust him more than any other.

I never said it was devoid of anyone's motivated bias. One's own actions and directions are motivated and biased in what you do and how you think also, which is obviously being demonstrated here with your comments. But mankind was given a brain with which to learn and make factual decisions based on that education and learning. And the vast majority of researchers and scientists are too preoccupied with studies to get caught up in the posturing of others and a little effort does spot them.

Thanks to technology and the Internet today, one does not have to "camp in the desert" and run from university to university for most things, though there are many who still prefer the do-it-yourself approach. Me, I don't have the years left in my life, so I my brain as much as possible, along with some statistical analysis to find the plausible factual answer out of all the crap out there and then move forward to learning more information. Sometimes I find information that turns out to be no longer factual and it is replaced or updated. The field of home preserving and canning is a good example of once factual information that became obsolete and required relearning.

You seem to express a method of it being too complex, so I'm not even going to try to do it. That's fine. But I seek more out out life and what "is" our life.

Little things in life that we learn can have profound influences on our life, like Adam and Eve in the Bible, who bore two children from whom we are all descended from. Right? The two children were Cain and Able, both males. Think about it. Something is missing that was removed by the RC Church eons ago because they didn't like the story.