(2018) Essay on Media Bias

https://www.facebook.com/100002074481530/posts/4110962868982822/ (Repost from three years ago.)

This isn't fact-based news, just an opinion essay. That's also what this is about: news and non-news. By now, we all know dopey Trump's redundantly self-serving term.

The problem with his sandbox campaign construct- a go-to narrative used to dodge responsibility from his own words or deeds- is that there IS a type of fake news in play, and easily identifiable on both sides.

While truth-challenged Trump over-uses his term any time reporters ask any question, fake news today is regretfully real.

The specific problem I have with NPR, ABC/CBS/NBC, CNN, and FOX News networks: it has become nearly impossible to differentiate between alledged news reporting, and a network's respective political spinning. 

It's ALL opinion now, the way news is headlined, framed, and presented. So, I believe journalism in America has radically and drastically changed, the line between fact and spin now just about faded away, with both sides being transparently and routinely dishonest.

So, the public is constantly influenced this way and that. But, the unmentioned, inconvenient fact, mostly the "news" is blatantly liberal/progressive, left-lensed, with only FOX and most of talk radio spun oppositely. Who remains to simply report the news?

Maybe the news has always been manipulated by degree, with humans reporting on other humans, news editors and reporters seldom being neutral.

But the various biases have never been so pervasive and evident in the news-journalism world, or credibility so affected.

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