CNN will host a live town hall with progressive lawmakers Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday, October 15, the network announced Friday.
The town hall will air at 9 p.m. ET and will be moderated by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins from Washington, DC.
The event comes as the government shutdown is set to enter a third week, leaving roughly 1.4 million federal employees furloughed or working without pay. The funding lapse has already affected travel, and its impact could soon be seen on food assistance programs and the economy overall.
Are you unaware of the new ownership of CNN and their hard right turn?
Seems like there’s no national news should trust anymore.
No should have very trusted any of them
I still like PBS
Well, yeah. You should be critical of all media empires, even the “good” ones or the ones with the same political biases as you.
Try and get your news from a variety of sources.
That’s why Reddit used to be, and why Lemmy/Piefed now, are good. Because you’ll see 3 or 4 copies of the same story from different organisations with slightly different stances.
Unfortunately the American media landscape is dominated by a handful of rich owners. Often even when you think you’re getting a story from 2 different sources they’re ultimately owned by the same person (e.g. Rupert Murdoch) and despite one showing a “left” stance and one a “right” they may still be manipulating the facts somehow.
Getting the “truth” in any news story is difficult and getting a full and proper grasp of what is going on in the world even more so, but we can at least try.
Personally I’m enjoying the likes of Novara Media who are run as a non-profit and rely on donations instead of adverts. This method of funding means they’re not beholden to the whims of advertisers nor are they beholden to shareholders who demand ever more engagement to drive profit.
In saying that, I’m still aware that they have biases and that no news organisation is perfect. We must also be aware that all of us, all of us, can fall victim to propaganda and manipulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_reading
https://help.open.ac.uk/critical-reading-techniques/critically-processing-what-you-read
AP and Reuters