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Why is political news stuff so hard to understand?

posted 4 years ago by JustinJared (74)
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Political news programs are always filled with big words, complicated subjects, hard to understand words, and information that's so dense -- it's hard or almost impossible for the average American or person with normal level of intelligence to understand or follow with ease or well.

Why is it like that? How can everyday Americans know how their governments work well, when the information delivered to them publicly about it is so cryptic, hard to understand, and shrouded in hard to understand language and words.

I don't believe the average American can understand any of this stuff that's reported on during these programs, and even though I go out of my way to try and understand the information shown on them -- I have a hard time myself following it and feel confused and lost at times regarding trying to understand many pollical matters discussed. Why is it like that?

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12278) 4 years ago

I understand most of what they're saying, but once in a very long while, some news article will use some rarely-spoken word like "craven" and "apocryphal" and then I just go to dictionary.com and later thesaurus.com, so I get a full idea of what they're saying. I'm afraid when it comes to the stock market, it's all Greek to me.