Misinformation?

[seang]

I am very new to political discussions, as will be made obvious by my next question. Where does the critical info come from when people are discussing these things? Is there only the news channels?

News channels are cool, but I feel that they could be biased. I think that if someone didn't want something put out into the news, they could bribe the media to look the other way. This is what I'm worried about.

It seems like there would be some things that get lots of coverage, and some things that might also be important, but don't get covered for some reason. Do you see what I'm saying?

[smockers83]

There are news channels, those tend to be the main medium. Typically one cannot watch just one news channel to get all the stories or to even get all sides to a story. For the sake of having the claim of being the first to report a story, one channel may report a story while another will never touch it.

Personally, I think CNBC, although a business channel, is the best news channel. Economics, business, and politics go hand in hand every day, and they talk about all three constantly. On CNBC, you have real experts talking about economics and people who have worked with the government, in high-level business, etc. Granted, with nearly everything, you have to guard yourself against what people want to claim to fit an agenda versus what is reality, and certain personalities on CNBC are susceptible to it as well, but I think nearly not as much as you see on msnbc, CNN, and Fox News.

I used to watch Fox News all the time with a little CNN. Then it was CNN with a little Fox News. Now I watch no traditional news channel. If I watch the news, it's CNBC. That's because they talk about a lot of high-level stuff that affects the whole nation economically and politically, whereas on CNN you hear all the stories about a car chase in Los Angeles and other BS like that that I really don't give a rat's a** about. That news has no effect on me whatsoever. All of the news on CNBC will touch me in some way, whether through some government policy or the systemic risk of market forces taking banks down.