Opinon starting to shift

parlorcitysaint said

It's not a loss of connection to reality so much as it's the loss of the ability to think for ourselves as a society. For the most part, we've just become so accustomed to believing what the talking heads are saying that we really don't know who's telling us the truth anymore.

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I think that this is true to an extent, but to me, the root cause is that journalism has shifted drastically to a place where opinions grab 80% of the "air time" where fact reporting is down drastically.

I think about my grandfather (rip) who used to watch the news back when the news was straight reporting of who, what, when, and where and you trusted them. Cut to today and he is putting that same trust into "reporters" in that no longer need the same journalistic integrity to report or simply label their work as op-ed.