badgenome said:
But is that necessarily a bad thing? I think the journalism of Fox News and MSNBC could be improved upon, to say the very least, but is it really worse to be flamboyantly biased than it is to be just as biased but couch it in dreary j-school prose such that people who don't know better will just assume that it's the cold hard truth? Personally, I always feel like the former are at least marginally less insulting to my intelligence than the latter and their ridiculous "if I don't tell you I'm biased, you can't know that I'm biased!" mentality. |
It isn't a bad thing if it gets so outrageously horrible, there is a general agreement that it is all B.S and people move away from it. A problem that happens, short of that, is you get people increasingly falling into one camp or the the other, being political fanboys and being unable, to any extent to even agree to the most basic of things going on. In this, there is no point in society where people will stop and take pause and be human. Everything gets so political, people rip each other to shreads. At this point, how do you even run a society at all?
Pretty much, on a practical level, you lose people being neighbors. You know, that case where you would help someone in genuine need irregardless of their political views? In short there is a lack of respect and even common courtesy. Like, where I am I see this. Someone rips down a sign for the county executive who is a Republican. Someone else decides to stick the words "tax and spender" on the Democrat's sign who is running for county executive. There is no respect or manners at all.
I will go with this Brad Stine video on the outro to this post:
