Our Dishonest
News
This news item
about where old shoes end up really illustrates the lack of veracity in our
modern world. Can we believe anything that
we read or watch or hear from Mainstream Media, Big Industry or Big Tech these
days?
Well, the answer
is, not indiscriminately! The source of
what we are consuming as news needs to be vetted, and some of the vetting
entities are also slanted and dishonest.
Forgetting my
own tendency to be a bit on the libertarian and conservative side of issues, I
strive for honesty and accuracy, and have gone out of my way to find it.
I have found “Media Bias Fact Check” to be an honest and unbiased
checker of news sources. “Factcheck.org”
is also honest, but not quite as robust.
“Snopes” and “Politifact” lean as far left as many news sources that
they purport to vet.
One cannot
enumerate all of the popular news sources.
That’s what “Media Bias Fact Check” is for.
Briefly, the Mainstream
Media is left-wing, and pretty much parrots the views of the democrats. Included in the Mainstream Media are ABC, CBS,
NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, AP, Time Mag, Atlantic and many other
well-worn news sources.
Expressing a
more conservative view are the Murdoch Group’s FOX, WSJ, and NY Post, and the
National Review. Breitbart, OAN and
Newsmax are more conservative. Reuters
is a pretty much balanced news service.
Having said all
of that, one needs to distinguish between news and opinion. We are not getting the news when watching
Hannity on Fox or Maddow on MSNBC. We
are getting their strong opinions.
The difference
between the Mainstream and more conservative Media relates many times to what
news is covered. Examples are CNN and Fox
coverage, (or lack thereof), of the Southern border crisis and of Hunter’s
laptop. The Mainstream Media obfuscates and
distorts the news. The more conservative
media reports it honestly. The conservative
right may have opinions about the news, but they report it honestly and don’t try
to hide it.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-plastic-dow-shoes/
Ray Gruszecki
February 25, 2023
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