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many years ago my PR teacher explained it all. He was a retired editor from the NY Post from back in the Dolly Schiff days of Postdom, and therefore knew something about the trade.
EVERY news medium has a slant. Even if it's not strictly political, each medium has an editorial leaning for what is or isn't important and how the story should read. I didn't believe him at the time, starry-eyed kid that I was, but I eventually learned he was right.
So, the point is not to find the perfectly honest medium, but to understand how each one slants the story. In most cases, I would guess, the stories aren't slanted so much politically, but toward what the editorial boards think is newsworthy. Or, what will "sell" as news and bring in circulation or ratings.
It used to be interesting reading the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times covering the same story. Although each was accurate as far as the facts went, they each used a different set of facts and it sometimes looked like they were covering different stories. Neither was "honest" or "lying" but each story was from the editorial point of view of the papers.
I still read the Times and the local fishwrap and some magazines like Atlantic and New Yorker. NPR and PBS are still reasonably good, if not perfect, but I avoid cable news.
I'll guess that the vast majority of journalists out there are really trying to feed us honest news, but not only are they human and make mistakes, but there are now incredible commercial and time pressures on what's already a difficult job.
Don't let anyone con you about the good ol' days of Cronkite, Murrow, etc. Those were the days of the last gasps of the Hearst empire coloring the news and Cronkite was one of the White House press group that covered up not only FDR's polio, but also his worsening health toward the end.
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