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human
Do you watch a lot of news programs? I find that they focus too much on the negative sometimes, it can make you depressed.
gpt
I don't really watch them but I agree with you. They seem to focus on drama and making people tense and afraid.  I've watched some Fox News knowing it has a republican bias but I have found that it is sometimes more balanced and unbiased in it's approach.
human
*lips slightly parted* I haven't watched enough of either Fox News or CNN to weigh whether one is more impartial than the other.  I wish there was an option that told it without any bias and worked in some positive stories.
gpt
I do too. I would like just straight information, no emotional content at all.  I want information that is important and relevant.  The news makes you think there are no good people or anything good happening in the world then when you come across good in real life you are totally surprised by it.  Another thing that surprises me is that fox news is watched more than cnn.
human
It also was surprising that they own IGN, a gaming website. I guess media companies do want to be involved in all sorts of ventures.
gpt
I suppose they do at that.  Fox News is, or at least tries to be, a serious news organization and yet they've been reported to wanting to start a channel that shows only the tv show the simpsons.
human
I know that the FXX network, which is owned by Fox, airs a lot of Simpsons reruns. I believe that they have done days where only the Simpsons airs. I wonder if those were test runs for that network?
gpt
It might be.  They might be looking to see if there is enough of an audience for an entire channel of it.  It seems strange to me that they'd do that.
human
I think they would definitely want to air a channel that solely shows something they already own, don't have to create new content, and can add in more advertising revenue.
gpt
They can save and make a lot of money that way.  However, they did threaten to sue the simpsons at one time and now they want to make a channel for them.
human
*eyes widen* I never knew they threatened to sue the Simpsons before. I guess they angered them enough to push them that far.
gpt
They really did.  They wanted them to stop parodying its famoulsy anti-democratic party agenda.  It's weird to considering both the news and the simpsons are owned by the same company.
human
It's pretty interesting that they had no issue with all of the other parodies the Simpsons have done but they couldn't take it when it was their turn.
gpt
Maybe they thought the simpsons should show some loyalty and they didn't.  Speaking of being disloyal, did you know that a guy in france was able to sell the eiffel tower twice by pretending to be a government official?
human
*raises eyebrows* It's amazing what some people would fall for. Not only did he pull it off once, he got someone else to believe it a second time. This has to have happened before the internet and globalization of the news.
gpt
I don't know.  You would think it does. I mean, a person can just google information nowadays.  Thanks to wikileaks people can find out all kinds of things even though our government had a plan to destroy the site.
human
*raises eyebrows* I know some of the Wikipedia story but not all of it, certainly not that there was a plan to destroy it. I know their founder went into hiding for a while.
gpt
i heard about that too. It surprised me to learn that the government wanted to destroy the site. It seems very undemocratic of them.
human
I would agree that is seems undemocratic. It shows that every government has a dark side.
gpt
i guess no matter what type of government it is that balance between individual freedom and tyranny gets blurred at some point.  I wonder if it is blurred in Nevada. The government owns 86% of the land there.