i can't really say were the news in the old days the same as now, or are the people saying that before news people were just telling us the news with no spin on it just not true :D
At the moment there are student demonstrations / blockade in front of our national TV (something like BBC for example, every household pays ~ 4$ a months to finance it) and it is going on for 150 hours now.
So there is a lot of conversation should news people just tell and show us what is going on, without giving any opinion about it, and let people make their own minds. Because it feels like all the media has an agenda now.
With all the technology now, there is a lot more of "information" but it is also harder to lie. Especially with something that is factual.
One of the examples.
Month and a half ago students also announced they are going to block the national TV station for 22 hours. it was a late night unexpected thing so they also caught police by surprise. They were afraid students could brake into the station so they had to get to the entrances but they arrived almost at the same time.
There was some minor pushing and showing but nothing spectacular. Until our president posted a photo with a police officer in the hospital with a pretty fucked up eye, saying he was attacked by the students. And all the pro media shared it right away.
And if that happened 20 years ago, most would believe the "official" story. But everyone has a camera now, so in 30-40 minutes we saw that the police officer was not in uniform and with no police identification.
30 minutes later we got a video of what happened and that it was friendly fire. Of course they just played dead after that.
RE: Talking Past Each Other