Do You Feel Confident in the Television News?
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2012/07/15 18:36:59
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According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans’ confidence in television news is at an all-time low. In 1993, when Gallup first started tracking confidence in our news networks, 46% of adults expressed a great deal or quite a lot of confidence. By last year, the percentage had dropped to 27%. This year, it’s even lower at 21%.
Interestingly, confidence levels dropped across almost all subgroups regardless of age, gender, political beliefs, or education. It used to be that conservatives were more skeptical of TV news than liberals and moderates. But in recent years, confidence within the latter two groups has plummeted and is now about even with conservatives.
“It is not clear precisely why Americans soured so much on television news this year compared with last,” read the Gallup report. “Americans' negativity likely reflects the continuation of a broader trend that appeared to enjoy only a brief respite last year. Americans have grown more negative about the media in recent years, as they have about many other U.S. institutions and the direction of the country in general.”
Gallup also went to great lengths to point out that this data was collected weeks before both CNN and Fox News mistakenly reported that the Supreme Court had found the Affordable Healthcare Act unconstitutional. It’s likely that this incident of erroneous reporting may have further soured Americans on television news.
So, what about you SodaHeads? Do you feel confident in the television news?


Interestingly, confidence levels dropped across almost all subgroups regardless of age, gender, political beliefs, or education. It used to be that conservatives were more skeptical of TV news than liberals and moderates. But in recent years, confidence within the latter two groups has plummeted and is now about even with conservatives.
“It is not clear precisely why Americans soured so much on television news this year compared with last,” read the Gallup report. “Americans' negativity likely reflects the continuation of a broader trend that appeared to enjoy only a brief respite last year. Americans have grown more negative about the media in recent years, as they have about many other U.S. institutions and the direction of the country in general.”
Gallup also went to great lengths to point out that this data was collected weeks before both CNN and Fox News mistakenly reported that the Supreme Court had found the Affordable Healthcare Act unconstitutional. It’s likely that this incident of erroneous reporting may have further soured Americans on television news.
So, what about you SodaHeads? Do you feel confident in the television news?


Read More: http://www.gallup.com/poll/155585/Americans-Confid...
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Mrs. maggot 2012/07/15 20:15:58No






















Take today's big story, the Syrian bombing killing several high officials. All the major networks played it straight down the middle. No coloring, no political slanting. They simply reported the story.
So reporting 1 story without bias or nonsense means that they are relavant? They pick and choose what they want to run based on the estimated viewing numbers. Major news networks are based in finance not fact or newsworthyness.
Question for you on how relavent the newz is:
How long did they talk about Michael Jackson when he died?
...it is all about entertainment not facts.
The Internet is a better source of news, and Free Speech TV.
But I'll be more specific about Mr. Jones, since I've listened to quite a bit of his material, both on his radio show and on the video clips on his website. I remember a particular 3-hour radio show he did on the child sacrifice of supposedly high-up secretive illuminati secret society members. That they would travel around the world, snatch up young children, and sacrifice them to drink their blood for vitality. He even went so far as to have 2 people on he considered "experts" in the goings-on of these secret societies who had written books on the matter, but could never once provide a shred of evidence or even plausible circumstancial evidence to back the claims.
I remember listening to another show, this one was in January of 2012 sometime, where he was talking about a family trip he took out to the grand canyon, and made several stops along...
But I'll be more specific about Mr. Jones, since I've listened to quite a bit of his material, both on his radio show and on the video clips on his website. I remember a particular 3-hour radio show he did on the child sacrifice of supposedly high-up secretive illuminati secret society members. That they would travel around the world, snatch up young children, and sacrifice them to drink their blood for vitality. He even went so far as to have 2 people on he considered "experts" in the goings-on of these secret societies who had written books on the matter, but could never once provide a shred of evidence or even plausible circumstancial evidence to back the claims.
I remember listening to another show, this one was in January of 2012 sometime, where he was talking about a family trip he took out to the grand canyon, and made several stops along the way to visit several cave sites. One place in particular, in Nevada, he went on a rant about how they had government "jackbooted thugs" all over the place questioning people. According to him, they recognized him when he came into the gift shop, and began interrogating him. Well none of this ever happened. He made it all up. What actually happened was that the gift shop clerk was chatting him up asking where they were from and if they were having a good time, but that wasn't exciting enough for him, so he had to turn it into some woven tale of government fascism on his radio show.
Fema camps. This is an especially favorite story of his. You'll often hear him go off the rails about how Obama and the "globalists" are setting up fema camp trailers all over the united states, that they will use as detention houses when they start rounding up people to throw them off their land and imprison them should they try to resist the globalist overthrow of the American way of life. I always give a little chuckle when I hear this one, since the US government (post-katrina) built too many of them in anticipation of future disasters, and began selling them off at a loss to other entities that would use them as miscellaneous storage facilities or mobile offices, often for pennies on the dollar.
Anyway, I could go on about this guy, but I will say one thing about him. He truly believes that the crap he spouts is the truth. He believes in the doomsday scenario, and he's got lots of survival seed packs, AR-10 assault rifles, and bars of gold to sell you...
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Readiness Exercise 1984 (REX-84) is an emergency response program involving the implementation of martial law, the movement of civilian populations and the arrest and detainment of segments of the population. A rehearsal of the program was carried out April 5-13, 1984. It was led by FEMA and the Department of Defense and involved the coordination of 34 other Federal departments and agencies. [11] REX-84 was mentioned during the Iran-Contra hearings [12] and publicly exposed by the Miami Herald on Sunday July 5th, 1987. [13]
Similar large-scale emergency preparedness drills have taken place regularly since then. The most recently announced, organized by NORTHCOM, are scheduled for October 15-20. [14] Some a...
"in the latter part of 1999 Johnston learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in other immoral acts. Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased." http://www.corpwatch.org/arti...
Readiness Exercise 1984 (REX-84) is an emergency response program involving the implementation of martial law, the movement of civilian populations and the arrest and detainment of segments of the population. A rehearsal of the program was carried out April 5-13, 1984. It was led by FEMA and the Department of Defense and involved the coordination of 34 other Federal departments and agencies. [11] REX-84 was mentioned during the Iran-Contra hearings [12] and publicly exposed by the Miami Herald on Sunday July 5th, 1987. [13]
Similar large-scale emergency preparedness drills have taken place regularly since then. The most recently announced, organized by NORTHCOM, are scheduled for October 15-20. [14] Some assert that the drills continue to include preparations for the suspension of the Constitution and the implementation of martial law. [15]
In August 2002, then Attorney General John Ashcroft called for American citizens who are deemed ‘enemy combatants’ to be detained indefinitely without charge and independently of the judiciary. [21] This legal position was upheld in the case of a US citizen detained abroad by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a January 2003 ruling. [22]
Citizens who are concerned about the purpose and potential use of the detainment camps have documented and, when possible, filmed the detainment facilities. A current estimate of the number of detainment camps is over 800 located in all regions of the United States with varying maximum capacities. [27] If one includes government buildings currently used for other purposes the number is far greater.
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