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Originally Posted by Timo
Holy shit, is that what your tv news is like, or is it just Fox News? It's like some E! Entertainment show, but supposedly about a real subject. I've seen short clips of your tv news shows in The Daily Show, but that really didn't prepare me for the real deal.
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This is what the news in the U.S. is like, yeah. Just about all of it. Hyperbole, baseless claims, twisted facts, fearmongering, turning insignifigant occurances into "proof" of something huge is going on (i.e. if someone somewhere takes a shit on someone's lawn, your local news will report it as a lawn shitting epidemic)...the occasional outright lie just to keep things spicy.
It's slightly worse since it's local news (and yes, local news is shitty everywhere, even L.A. To date, New York has the only highly professional local newscasts I've ever seen) Watching local news in America is like having AIDS beamed directly into your brain stem.