Sunday, March 21, 2010

News or Opinion



Wow!! News has come a long way. News is starting to become the newscaster’s one sided opinion instead of actual facts. Bill O’Reilly and Nancy Grace are perfect examples. I found it quit hard to watch “The O’Reilly Factor”. The topic of hour was health care reform. O’Reilly started the show off with the most ridicules opinion. Democrats want everyone to be equal in every aspect of life but, when it comes to health care that cannot be if you are poor and poorly educated. He says democrats want the government to grant the poor with the same security that they did for the rich. That is one of the most down grading things I have ever heard. So because you’re poor you cannot get assistance because you made yourself poor and what happened to liberty and justice? Then O’Reilly has one of his colleague’s, Bret Baier on the show. They are discussing the interview Baier did with President Obama about health care. I find it disrespectful that they would crack jokes about how many times Baier cut President Obama off when talking and that Bill O’Reilly found it amusing. I thought news was supposed to have some type of formality and it was created to report what’s going on in America, not someone’s head? I don’t think I can recall a time when a Fox News anchor was rude to President Bush? Now let’s talk about Nancy Grace. Her show is more of a new type of news reporting. She has panels and talk about legal issues. On this particular episode I watched, she addresses the Casey Anthony case. During the entire show, Nancy Grace is screaming instead of talking. She has several guess on from different professions such as, lawyers, reporters, and psychiatrist. She cuts her guess off frequently when she does not agree with their opinion to make her opinion seem that it is right. Because Nancy Grace is a former prosecutor, I believe she cannot separate the courtroom mentality from being accepted in to millions of homes. What has news become?

3 comments:

  1. I agree. News today is becoming too bias. It's not even news anymore, just opinion.

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  2. Personally, I love Nancy Grace's style. But she does tend to scream when things do not go her way. But hey that is what makes it so entertaining to watch. But yes I also agree that things can be biased. But let's face it this will become the NEW news.

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  3. So Stacey---big Nancy Grace fan huh? Good job Samara...you made some good points.

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