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Old July 12, 2013, 01:12 PM   #25
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Yellow Journalism is recognized as a significant contributing factor in causing the Spanish American War.

Things have, if anything, gotten worse, since. Our "news" media is driven by, essentially, the profit motive. Anything and everything that increases people's desire to view the news increases their profits. Today, it is all grist for the mill.

Accuracy of description is long gone, and even obvious lies are passed out as gospel truth these days. Even the proper use of basic English is ignored in favor of reporting that increases emotional unrest in the public.

The Zimmerman case is a perfect example of media bias, both in the decisions of what to air (and how it was edited) as well as the focus on everything else but the fact that shooting someone who is pounding your skull into the pavement might be justified...
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