Monday, November 25, 2013

The Best Non-Partisan Political Information Is Not Presented By Either Side Of The Argument

By Angela Briggs


The definition of non-partisan political information has undergone quite a bit of change from the mid 1950s. There used to be a working press that would present news and information so that people would be informed about the issues of the day. That is not the case, today. Both sides of each and every issue present the message they want you to know and the media chooses which side they want to report on.

When people go to competing factions for this type of factual data, they are being misled. Not presenting facts is one of the worst things that can be done. There are more communication platforms which should make it easier to get the facts out, yet, both sides depend, largely, on misinformation and broad generalizations. They do this to avoid looking like they are for or against anything.

Presenting facts, by the talking heads, would not be in their best interests, or so they believe. Political subject matter, in order to be valuable in their minds, must be what the voters want to hear. This makes it extremely important that the information presented be weighted by good sounding comments. This has ushered in bumper sticker politics. None of this is helpful to news junkies as they do not get anywhere near enough informative reporting.

Health care talking points would be a good example of this unbalanced data. Reciting facts that would stand up to any scrutiny is not what is in their best interests. Instead of the listing of numbers dealing with how many people are satisfied with their insurance, we get the very partisan explaining that we do not know what we are talking about. This misguided information would have us believe that, because of 30 million people, we need to change the health care insurance industry for 317 million people.

These followers of the media will hear emotions rather than facts which is a extremely good indication this is as partisan as most political information is. The same holds true for gun control. If you own a gun, in America today, the press, the President and the majority party in the Senate will tell everyone that there is one too many dangerous guns on the streets. This scares people beyond anything that is reasonable.

Going to a debate is somewhere that many people believe they will be able to find this type of factual substance. They would be wrong. The rules usually do not allow for the imparting of anything that might actually give any real information to the attendees. One side does not want messages of this nature to get out and the other side just wants to get along with the first side.

News junkies must cultivate different places to get this type of factual data. There are many websites that claim their non partisan stance on all issues. This is easy to analyze as there will, usually, be an outright advertizement combined with the copy. Sometimes it is hidden better than at other times, however, it will probably be there.

Non-partisan political information is the recitation of facts. They may be good looking and they may be quite ugly. Making them pretty for public consumption is simply lying. Doing this makes for incomplete data, serves to make the speaker look better and does not help the conversation proceed properly.




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