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What makes a journalist good is the fact that he/she can leave their biases at the door. If I want to read about an event, etc., I do NOT want their opinion. I just want the FACTS! Free will (which we all have) allows me to make my own judgement of the situation. If you are American, then you should absolutely understand this. It is what your whole society is based upon...Free Will!

News reporting should be treated like science, in my mind. Just the facts. Do you actually WANT someone to tell you what you ought to think about a situation? I can't count the times I have been inflamed to the point of losing it, only to realize I had been duped by false reporting or exaggeration / under-exaggeration of a certain event later on as more FACTS came to light.

As for "anthropomorphizing" (thanks for that word, by the way - had to look that one up! Love it!) by an individual reporter - IT DOES SKEW REALITY. YOU ONLY GET REPORTING FROM ONLY ONE PERSON'S PERSPECTIVE - HARDLY THE POINT OF JOURNALISM. The point is, it SHOULD make you want to LEARN more. A newspaper cannot possibly cover all that you should/could/want to know... It is only meant to get you information on "current" situations. The motivation to learn more about what is happening in the world around you, especially things that are meaningful to you, is really, your responsbility.

In my opinion, too much bias has entered mainstream journalism - mostly for entertainment value and to capture the attention of as many viewers as possible - for strictly financial reasons. Most people today, take biased news reporting as fact and are therefore, skewed, not by their own volition, but by those reporting their opinions as opposed to the FACTS. Mind control to a certain extent comes into play here. (Like the justification of the war in Iraq, for instance. Skewed reporting (of the reality of Iraq having nukes) put the U.S. in an impossible position and is costing the people untold billions and billions and billions of dollars, not to mention the precious lives of a countless number of people)!!!!

Do you ever get a chance to see how news about the same topic is reported by the "other side" or a relatively neutral side? Very, very different! Expand your mind and don't let the mainstream MEDIA tell you what to think!!!! Their motives are strictly profit-driven. My motive for watching the news is to learn the facts, and I hate being screwed over when I find that what has been report is just a bunch of ********, especially after I have research deeper into the subject at hand!

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