Sometimes, it's hard to suspend belief...

[Rocketing-warp9]

Actually, It might be harder than that.... The VM Locked up afterwards.

Drat.

 

[KGIII]

Anyhow, the whole thing leaves me trusting the news from formerly trusted news outlets about as much as I trust news from my facebook feed - which is to say "not at all".

There has been bias in our news since the start, as I understand it. There was once such a pressing matter that we coined the term 'yellow journalism'.

I'm okay with some kinds of bias. For example, "This is what happened, why it happened, when it happened, and I approve."

A long time ago, I did some freelance journalism, and one of the things I was told to never use was the word 'I', or to refer to myself in any way (unless it was of extreme importance and factually accurate).

That said, I'd still mostly trust the BBC's reporting. They at least fire people who misbehave. It's not like it's FOX who went to court with the argument that 'no reasonable viewer' would believe what their commentators said. Sadly, the court agreed with that -- yet they still have a large fanbase.

As a journalist, I had an experience that changed my views of journalism, but it's probably a longer story than necessary. I'll sum it up by saying that I couldn't find a publisher for a piece about the pollution caused by the company that made the actual paper the newspapers were printed on.

I didn't do it for long. It was more like a second (or third) job. It didn't pay very well. I could make more money doing other things with that time. It was also surprisingly tedious. I did the local politics and hard copy stuff. The latter paid better, but took more time and effort.