re: #211 MsJ

Except for 20 or so years from Ed Morrow to Cronkite’s retirement, that’s all “journalism” really ever was. Don’t forget how the newspapers started the Spanish-American war and fanned the flames for WWI. For a short time we had people who thought news was more than propaganda or entertainment, but once it became unprofitable, back to the old model the media ran.

The best thing to do is the same as ever - read enough different sources that their inherent bias cancel each other out.

As the Russians used to say, there is no truth (Pravda) in the news (Izvestia) and no news in the truth. Not much different here…