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Its not about "which news channel do I prefer", or "you are not going to convince me to start watching something else". I do not care what you watch, nor when or how. I cannot vote in your country, nor will I have any influence on whatever outcome of your election. Let that be clear.
I do advise you, and everybody else however, to diversify your sources where you get news. Try and get the whole picture.
Its all about recognizing when something, somebody, some group wants to influence your opinion by repeating the same things to you over and over and over and over again. It was a popular method in Nazi Germany, also in George Orwell's 1984.
In other words, you do not choose, your choice gets made for you. You think you have a choice, and it sure seems like you have a choice, but by making sure your view of some of the available choices gets as distorted as possible, your eventual choice can and will be manipulated. Not realizing this is a bit problematic, as I expect you can imagine.
Not seeing that they (sic) want you to think in one way, and getting overly defensive when people point out the obvious ("but channel X does it too!! and much much worse!!") is not optimal. Blind trust in "what the people in the boobtube say" is a horrible thing.
I say we are in an information age. By getting stuck with only one news outlet (like for instance "i'll never watch cnn or msnbc, they are so biased, i'll continue watching Fox which is less biased! Yar!" ) will severely hamper your judgement|opinion|bias|{insert something political here}.
Understand that it does not matter which channels you watch, as long as you get the whole picture, not the opinions on top of opinions on top of opinions of people with obvious agendas.
There's tons and tons of legitimate news sources out there all you have to do is open your eyes, ears and mind. Do not use just one, use all you can find. Stay informed.
There was a good quote in this thread about Obama and "20 Years" Wright that I wanted to use to illustrate my point right now, as being the direct result of foxnews continuous drivel since it was not a level, but it somehow somewhen got deleted...
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