What is going on with the news today? I guess long gone are the days of non-bias news broadcasting. Who, what, why, when, and how have been replaced with personal opinion. Instead of just keeping to the facts news analysts, reporters, and correspondents recreate these dramatic stories that sensationalize local, state, and national news.

I am well aware of forming my own opinion. I am perfectly capable of deciding which car I’d like to purchase, what foods I’d prefer to eat, and just how long I need to spend in a hot tub before I become a prune. So what would give the newscaster, who obviously does not know me, the impression that I am incapable of hearing the facts and drawing my own conclusions.

They really must think me incapable, because not only do they give me their own personal opinion, they also invite several “experts” to give their opinions as well. Sometimes with the “experts” we, the viewing public, get the displeasure of practically seeing guests go into fist-to-cuffs right there on the TV screen. We most definitely get the displeasure of seeing very heated debates and arguments between guests as well as with the news anchors/hosts. The public has witnessed name calling, finger pointing, and out right temper tantrums. News broadcasting has turned into a live version of “Tabloid” news.

What happened to the “Walter Cronkite” days of news broadcasting? Mr. Cronkite was labeled, “the most trusted man in America” In today’s news, I can’t honestly say that I absolutely trust any of what I see or hear broadcasted. I take each tidbit of news with a grain of salt. Let alone all news is not broadcasted. Networks decide what news is news and what news is not. They also decide what news the viewing public will be suffering through for 24 hours a day for the next few days, weeks, months. The broadcasting of news has become like a disc jockey, who not only plays ‘his’ record of choice, but who also leaves his turn table, unaware that the record he left playing is scratched and keeps repeating itself.