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We have received feedback on this issue from people all across America. Review the graph to the left for a quick snapshot of the responses received to date, or read the responses below.
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Fred, CO
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... Tone it down.
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September 16,2003
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How ironic. You're hyping the hype. The format of your show mimics everything you seem to question. I especially like how you cite American flags being over used while putting them in you banners, your webpage and even the glass in the background. Tone it down. Talk straight.
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Paul, CO
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... the truth hits
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September 16,2003
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If I agree with the statement, I would then be like so many other Lemmings in this country when the truth hits them at that critical point. Oops?
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David, NM
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... BBC World is the best
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September 16,2003
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Not in any of the major US players. BBC World is the best on television. I use the internet constantly to get details, different slants, and multiple sources - what I wish I could get from mainstream news. Treat customers like morons, you get morons for customers.
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Anthony, TX
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... needs more non-profit
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September 16,2003
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I think the country needs more non-profit news organizations. With the drive for profit, budgets for investigative journalism shrink. And when investigative journalists actually do their job properly, they are silenced by corporate interests.
Who would fund such an endeavor? Why not the corporations that use the public resource for FREE, the TV broadcast frequencies?
The more I learn about the public relation industry and it's influence on the so called "news" organizations, the more I distrust corporate media. I recommend books written by the staff of www.prwatch.org, which are diligently researched and annotated, something not well done in the nightly news.
Or you can just believe "the media is just giving the public what it wants".
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Almeda, OH
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... We rarely get both
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September 16,2003
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I trust pbs news reporting like Bill Moyers NOW and also New Dimensions and Wisdom radio. Other than the above, my belief is that the news we hear is only PR for politics or big business. We rarely get both sides or the "real" truth.
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Eric, CO
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... rarely do journalism
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September 16,2003
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News organizations rarely do journalism anymore, they just report the information given to them by various parties without doing any critical analysis of whether the information is accurate, what the issues are, and how the news impacts us. In essence, news organizations have become P.R. outlets for any organization that has enough weight to attract attention. Real journalism requires at least a minimal level of fact checking, but this is no longer done. To be fair to reporters, their hands are often tied by impossible deadline pressures and parent companies with political agendas, but our nation is paying the price, and the cost is a misinformed public choosing their leaders and forming opinions with little or no understanding of what they are doing.
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Ray, VA
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... we can get BBC
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September 16,2003
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Thank God that we can get BBC now. There is little effort to inform rather than sell or entertain in the US media.
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David, NM
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... dozens of meetings
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September 16,2003
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The FCC had dozens of meetings with corporate media and only one public comment session before approving the new ownership rules. Michael Powell misses the point. I know enough to be skeptical of news - it's his political agenda I don't trust.
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Richard, TX
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... more skeptical
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September 16,2003
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I am becoming more skeptical of the main-stream media everyday.
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Keith, IL
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... short video bites
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September 16,2003
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Unless I watch PBS or the BBC I don't see anything that resembles full reporting. All I see on the network stations are short video bites, and advertisements for news stories that use up more time than the story itself. If the ads last longer than the story doesn't that indicate that they want you to watch their news and that the story is not important.
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