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Crisis in Yemen! Germanwings plane crash! Levi Pettit apologizes! Ted Cruz gets Obamacare! What does all this mean to you? Well, here at UNP Report, I intend to help you find out. Television news and other blogs tend to editorialize news so that, in our current times, the news you get isn't necessarily the news you need. Conservatives can go to Fox news to learn that Obama is making a deal with Iran that will almost certainly end with one of our biggest enemies in the region having nuclear bombs pointed at both the US and Israel. Liberals can go to MSNBC to learn that Ted Cruz may be Canadian, or at least only technically American and thus ineligible to even become President. Meanwhile moderates are left with whatever high profile puff piece falls in between (Levi Pettit apologized for leading his fraternity in a racist song, but refused to disclose where or how he learned it).
What if news returned to a time when the happenings of the day were simply reported and any editorializing was clearly labeled as such? This blog will be my attempt at returning news to a state in which the Fairness Doctrine reined supreme over the outrage and yelling. For the uninitiated, the Fairness Doctrine was a policy in the US from 1949 through 1987 that stated that all sides of a controversial topic must receive equal airtime. This was the era of some of the best news reporting and thusly, an era of a largely moderate (for the time) and thoughtful (for the time) populace. Everyone has an opinion, we don't need the news to give it to us.
Herein, we'll examine news topics from all sides and allow the reader to form their own opinions, and since I do love to editorialize, I will offer my own opinion in clearly marked posts. You may agree or disagree with me personally, but here is all the news that's fit to click!
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