Originally Posted by
Mike
That's true. We all know it, so why waste time arguing about it? We should spend that time figuring out how to counter news providers gone wild.
In my opinion, the news media should only report the news. The reports should be pure, no spinning allowed. No slants allowed. The news media can still have its traditional "opinions", but only in the editorial section. That's where it belongs.
While that would be a supremely honorable outcome, it would violate the principle of free speech. There is also another conundrum with that thought---who gets to decide what is pure truth?
Human nature leads many of us to "agreeable sources", which in and of itself is not as much an issue as what we do with that. The intellectually lazy will stop at that point of comfort and believe that is the only truth--there in lies the real issue.
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