Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. ---Mark Twain
It's getting nearly impossible these days to find news sources in which they don't offer commentators to follow up on the selected news stories with their own biased interpretations, or "spin". The three major so-called "news" networks are guilty of this...FoxNews is the worst offender. Not only is the commentary one-sided, but the actual topics selected are slanted as well as whomever they might choose as guests to interview. In reaction we're getting other channels touting themselves as "just the news", but wouldn't you know it, even they can't resist the temptation to hire their own (biased) commentators...just in case you're too stupid to come to your own conclusions about the news you just heard and can't form your own opinions without someone else spoon-feeding theirs to you. I suppose it's just a part of human nature to take fragments of incoming information and try to create whole narratives from them...or, better yet, fashion them to fit one's own by emphasizing the elements that fit and discarding those that don't. And if you can't do that for yourself, then help is on the way anywhere you look on the TV dial. And radio...what a sick joke...
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