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>My blood does boil even there, with the subtle editorializing tell us what to feel about what is essentially a neutral news item, but it's much easier to control than the online media.

Dear god yes. Give me the facts without trying to insert your politics there. Even the AP does this constantly. I'd pay gold for a news organization which prints something to the effect of:

>The current situation in XYZ in unknown. We have heard from partisan sources that A happened, we have heard from other partisan sources that B happened and the state department has told us C would happen. Please check back in three weeks for an update.



It's gotten to the point where simply reporting information that is unpleasant for one group of people is treated as biased and political.

Report about the cost of housing driving people to homelessness? That's the "left-wing media".

Report about people grifting off of BLM protects? It's the "right wing corporate media".

And those stories can very well be in the same newspaper or news show.




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