There are plenty of good sources of news out there.. you've just gotta look for it. I watch News Hour with Jim Lehrer, the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Al-Jazeera and Democracy Now. Bill Moyers has also always been a great source of news and interviews, though his journal is only online now. You've also got Dan Rather and World Report on HDNet. Link TV is an excellent station as well, I recommend it if you can get it. I like me some Charlie Rose too, but that really isn't news.
Fox, CNN, MSNBC (though I sometimes enjoy Dylan Rant-again) are mostly opinion and definately have their way of angling the way they present the news. Honestly though, few people with a handful of brain cells to rub together go into those thinking it's actual news. You've got to take that junk with a grain of salt. One has to be able to parse content, to be able to corroborate several sources to verify a fact.
The dead giveaway that a 'news' source is more interested in the entertainment aspect is if more than 65% of the screen is taken up with useless fugging graphics.. and then those are coupled with massive, dramatically themed transitions, fade in's/out's. You know you're watching 'candy' when there's four or more out-of-the-woodworks overpaid talking heads shouting over one another. Because of this, I think sources like Al-Jazeera are refreshing.. and there really isnt anything 'bad' about that. The money hungry multi-media corporations do it to themselves (and I kind of enjoy watching it go to sh!t because of their greed).
As far as Charlie goes.. I've always enjoyed his work as an actor. I worry about him as I would any other human being who has a drug problem. The craziness you see is the drugs at work turning his life upside-down.. that isnt the real Charlie Sheen. I've had people really close to me who've dealt with heavy drug problems and it aint easy or pretty, but what you can't do is throw them away because they're acting like sh!t. It's one of those situations in life where he needs to be hit with a major epiphany and have some solid people around him to bring him back around. Sometimes they never do come around. I hope he does.
