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Zonie63 -> RE: Do you remember..... (3/8/2013 6:38:48 AM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
Does anyone besides me remember when MTV and VH1 actually showed music videos for the entire programing schedule?
Vaguely.
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When the news was considered unbiased?
The news was always biased, although back then, we had far fewer choices for news - basically the broadcast networks and local daily newspapers - no internet and very little immediate access to alternative news sources.
Nowadays, there are so many more options available that the news doesn't really have to be "unbiased" anymore (not that it ever was). In fact, now that we have all these different options to get news from a wider variety of diverse sources, we can truly see just how biased the news is and always has been.
Perhaps the only reason news seemed more unbiased back then is because we had very few alternative sources to compare it to. Nowadays, we can check the veracity of any news story in a matter of minutes - something we couldn't do back then. Now that I can look back at some of the news stories I remember, knowing what I know now, I can recognize that there was plenty of bias and selective reporting. I didn't realize it at the time because I didn't know any better.
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You know during the days of the Evil Empire, and I dont mean starbucks.
Yep, I remember it very well. I even had the opportunity to visit the Evil Empire before it collapsed.
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Oh yeah, we only had one phone company to blame? When ATT had a monopoly on phone service?
That's another dim memory. A bit further back, I remember dial phones and having to go through the operator to make a long-distance call. At least we didn't have a party line, although there were still those who did.
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Before Alex Jones, Glen Beck and Rachel Maddow?
We had Nixon, Reagan, and Goldwater. There seemed to be more Birchers back then, or at least, they seemed more readily accepted in some mainstream circles. Those regarded as "conspiracy theorists" today might have found greater acceptance back then, and it wasn't until the mid-to-late 1990s (post-Waco and OKC) that they started to be dismissed "anti-government nuts." But back in the late 70s/early 80s, almost everyone I knew seemed to believed in conspiracies to some degree - JFK, Vietnam, Watergate, fake Moon landings, UFOs, Trilateral Commission, Bilderbergers, the CIA, NSA, etc. By the 1990s, there was a growing and decidedly zealous reaction against that kind of talk, and this trend has continued to the present day. So, now, they seem more relegated to the fringe than they used to be.
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