1. Bashing the news media is kind of old. I’ve worked both as a reporter and as the reported. Every one tries their best. Also, to address Dan, I don’t think people often like having a mirror held up to their lives.

2. No, the news media is not going away. Single writers are not gaining power. Want proof? Politico. Politico.com wasn’t the number one politics site, and source of news, last election because one person wrote it. It was because they have hundreds of employees covering all of wahsington. I could write a lot more, but i just have to disagree.

A few years ago, someone close to me was involved in an “incident” involving police and some politics…

Of course, the news hangs out around police stations, so they caught wind of the “story”.

They tried to reach the “someone close to me” for comment, which I said do not talk to them, and it was good advice….the news twisted and made up THEIR own version of the ‘event’ anyhow.

Then once one station gets wind of it, they all want a piece of it. My advice again was to not communicate, don’t even say ‘no comment’…just ignore the phone calls (thank goodness to caller id).

After about a week or so, some other “story” came along and they forgot all about the aforementioned ‘event’.

(the event, incidentally, was a misunderstanding, nothing illegal, and was resolved before the police station really was even involved)

so ever since that day…I refer to the station as “call letters” Fake news…and now knowing how they reeeeeaaach for stories sometimes, it’s almost fun to pick thru their news and note the fakeness of it all.

When I want to know a news story, I pretty much turn to the internet now, a few google searches later, and one can piece together whatever the gist of the story is.

If I had enough money, I’d start my own news source…make it completely unbiased (well, as much as humanly possible- even voice inflection can lead to bias) and simply report, just the news…just the facts…leave all color commentary to the viewer.

“Half a truth is often a great lie.” Benjamin Franklin

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” a Middle English saying attributed to many