Non-partisan political information is. Simply, the facts about whatever is being discussed. The need for this type of information is what most people would like to have in order to form their own opinions of any particular issue. What they usually find, however, is partisan rhetoric disguised as facts, such as what is reported in most of the dominant media.
The absence of real hard news, in the press, contributes to the scarcity of information that truly informs. The partisan quotes of one particular party are substituted for the investigation and hard questions that used to provide real news. The two categories of print media, hard news and commentary, have been subsumed under an editorial policy that takes the easy out and merely parrots the one party.
By not presenting the non-partisan political information they claim to, the people are not well served. This is acceptable by many people, however, others want to know what is happening and not what some editor, or rather, politician tells them is going on. The hard questions that used to be asked of elected individuals make it plain that facts are not presented and, therefore, are that much more valuable when they are read.
Simply repeating the words of a politician as being the news fit to print makes the exercise of a First Amendment protected entity a dangerous element of the body politic. This does not matter whether it is a right or left wing elected or appointed person. Politics, for all of its necessity in the debates of the day, do not require the press to bolster one side or the other.
Politicians, of all stripes, will present their talking points and hammer on them. This will rarely be fact based and none of those facts will find their ways to the voters as the media is not interested in them. Asking an elected official a direct question, unlike the press unless they are in the other party, will generate a jumble of words that means little to thinking people.
The almost total absence of common sense facts about gun ownership and crime is a good example. In cities where this second amendment right is actually infringed upon, gun violence is very high. The politicians who have the eyes and ears of the press will tell us all that this is not true. The same politicians who ignore these facts will also emotionalize many other things.
The news about immigration will always present legal and illegal immigrants as being one class. The facts present a true representation of what is going on. Emotion, again, proscribes what must be thought about in this issue according to the unbalanced thoughts presented in the media. They must both be looked at as being in the same group because we do not want to deprive immigrants entry to the country. No differentiation is allowed.
No amount of non-partisan political information will counter the partisan stuff that is put out on the airwaves and print media. This is unfortunate as many people will always act in ways that are appropriate if they have the facts. This situation will not get any better until those people stand up and say that there has been enough of this. They must demand that politicians either tell the truth or stay home.
The absence of real hard news, in the press, contributes to the scarcity of information that truly informs. The partisan quotes of one particular party are substituted for the investigation and hard questions that used to provide real news. The two categories of print media, hard news and commentary, have been subsumed under an editorial policy that takes the easy out and merely parrots the one party.
By not presenting the non-partisan political information they claim to, the people are not well served. This is acceptable by many people, however, others want to know what is happening and not what some editor, or rather, politician tells them is going on. The hard questions that used to be asked of elected individuals make it plain that facts are not presented and, therefore, are that much more valuable when they are read.
Simply repeating the words of a politician as being the news fit to print makes the exercise of a First Amendment protected entity a dangerous element of the body politic. This does not matter whether it is a right or left wing elected or appointed person. Politics, for all of its necessity in the debates of the day, do not require the press to bolster one side or the other.
Politicians, of all stripes, will present their talking points and hammer on them. This will rarely be fact based and none of those facts will find their ways to the voters as the media is not interested in them. Asking an elected official a direct question, unlike the press unless they are in the other party, will generate a jumble of words that means little to thinking people.
The almost total absence of common sense facts about gun ownership and crime is a good example. In cities where this second amendment right is actually infringed upon, gun violence is very high. The politicians who have the eyes and ears of the press will tell us all that this is not true. The same politicians who ignore these facts will also emotionalize many other things.
The news about immigration will always present legal and illegal immigrants as being one class. The facts present a true representation of what is going on. Emotion, again, proscribes what must be thought about in this issue according to the unbalanced thoughts presented in the media. They must both be looked at as being in the same group because we do not want to deprive immigrants entry to the country. No differentiation is allowed.
No amount of non-partisan political information will counter the partisan stuff that is put out on the airwaves and print media. This is unfortunate as many people will always act in ways that are appropriate if they have the facts. This situation will not get any better until those people stand up and say that there has been enough of this. They must demand that politicians either tell the truth or stay home.
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