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the media is a complete joke. They are not on a search for truth. They are on a search for supporting their agenda. Conservative, liberal, whatever, they have a way they want each story to go and they will report that way regardless of the facts.

Journalism is in a very bad place right now.

I agree to some extent, but I do think that mainstream media sources, both conservative (Fox, WSJ, Washington Times, etc.) and liberal (CNN, NYT, WaPo, etc.) still make a sincere attempt to get the facts right. They may selectively report them to support a pre-determined narrative, but they usually do not simply make them up out of thin air and when they do get something wrong, they usually correct the error. If three good things happen and one bad thing happens and a media outlet only reports the one bad thing, that may indicate a bias and an agenda, but it's still at least reporting facts. The bad thing did, in fact, happen. That's why trying to conflate them with fake news outlets (which literally make up the facts out of thin air) is both dishonest and dangerous.

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the media - as a legitimate source of objective fact finding - is dead.

Maybe, but I still have hope that it isn't too late. Maybe the biggest bullshitter ever to hold public office was just the jolt they needed to get back to doing their real job, which is to report the facts. Fact-checking is back in vogue after a long hiatus, and that's a good thing.

This post was edited on 2/28/17 at 10:02 am