[Mishmash] Why I Don't Watch "The news"

[Susan Flewelling]

At 07:33 AM 8/2/09, you wrote:
>This has been going on since I was in college and went home one night to video of the line at the bookstore being described as “campus protestors”.  If fact in all of the half dozen or so times I have actually been “on the scene” for something that wound up on the news . . . I’ve never seen accurate reporting.

Hugh - I know exactly what you mean. When there's no news, "they" create some.  A couple years ago my next door neighbor had friends visiting from away - her mother was very ill in hospital and rather than pay high fees at a motely, they brought their very respectable looking motor home and parked it in front of my neighbor's house.  It was there in the evenings and when they wern't at the hospital - they certainly caused no trouble.  Except another neighbor didn't like looking out her window and seeing the camper there - she got the police involved who said they wern't breaking any laws. 

Then she got a local t.v. station involved and they milked this for all it was worth for days - there was an "on the street" interview with neighbors - except the only neighbor they interviewed was the one bitching.  They did a survey on their web site as to whether campers should be allowed to park on residential streets - it went on and on.  I've never watched news on that station since, having seen how they operate.

I do listen to Fox News on satellite radio - fascinating watching the most famous  democracy in the world being morphed into a socialist.

Susan
Canada 

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