Name: "Irrelevant news" is as bad as #FakeNews ft. Larry O'Connor | #TruthStraightUp
Uploaded: 2020-02-16T18:10:07.000Z
Duration: 1 min 25 s
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Past simple

O'Connor: There's a whole lot said about "fake news" or "biased news."

The imperative

Let's talk about irrelevant news for a minute.

How many times are you watching cable news, and,

unless you're living in Manhattan, Washington, D.C., LA,

San Francisco, or Chicago, what you're watching there

The topics that are most important to them

aren't things that are really important to you.

The perspective that they bring to the table,

are not the arguments that you'd be having with

anyone that's important to you in your life.

I know that we want our news media to tell us

the truth, of course. That should go without saying.

We want them to actually talk about things that are

important to us, that matter to us, that are relevant

in our lives. That's the real danger of today's news media,

especially when it is so focused on the winners and losers

in Washington, D.C. Don't worry about being

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"Irrelevant news" is as bad as #FakeNews ft. Larry O'Connor | #TruthStraightUp

perspective

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matter

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