Technology is destroying America, but it’s not the self-driving cars, loss of privacy or generation of young people buried in cell phones. It’s Facebook. Twenty years ago, the U.S. had skinheads and radicals on both the left and right. But 20 years ago, the radicals couldn’t find each other – their circle of crazies was […]
Read More →Trust no one. There are a lot of dedicated journalists, but don’t assume the one in front of you has no bias. If a TV station, website or newspaper swears independence, it still quotes someone first, picks a lead story, and makes hundreds of small decisions that reflect an editor’s opinion. (See earlier story, […]
Read More →I research, select, write and publish news stories. A decade ago, I considered an article unbiased if the story received a roughly equal number of complaints from Republicans and Democrats. That must mean the story fell roughly in the middle, right? Many of those stories had something to do with a Congressional bill on […]
Read More →In the 1960s, Walter Cronkite delivered television news. To journalists, Walter was a god – an unbiased reporter who didn’t spin stories. Americans got facts and formed their own opinions. However, the U.S. only had three television stations in the 1960s. If a station’s stories teetered to the political left or right, they’d offend […]
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