It has become impossible to know what the truth in American politics really is. The differing reports are too jumbled, too self-contradictory. The truth there may be in what the reports say is lost in the biased way they say it.
Whether it's MSNC (liberal) or Fox News (conservative) that you're watching, the problem with both is the same: the truth is never told in a manner that viewers can discern what it really is. Each side's reporting is totally biased, completely contradicting the other, and itself.
So, we say, Puttbeat says that is, we have a huge need to know how to decipher what is true and what is not.
It's not an easy task. Contradictory positions hide everywhere behind the niceties of modern TV journalism. Thus, truth fades, or is entirely
lost
Puttbeat recommends that we viewers forcefully tell our biased sources of how terribly unhappy we are with them and that we are willing to purge all of them from our existences. (I prefer MSNBC over Fox News because MSNBC caters to my prejudices; but I can, and will live without MSNBC)
Our news sources have a choice: they can tell the news like they want it to be, or they can report everything with the caveat that they could be wrong.
I do not think it healthy for me to agree with everything a news source reports. For every reporting source is human and prone to error, often in a most grievous manner.
Just "give me the facts," said Sgt. Friday. That's all we need. That's all we must know.
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