Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper?
by TimTheTinker on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:39PM
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> Tribalism is a hell of a drug.
It's also extremely frustrating to people who are personally committed to pursue what is true (to the best of their ability), regardless of the consequences.
Every fact seems to have an attached political value or leaning. So various journalistic outlets intentionally omit facts that don't agree with their narrative -- which is lying by omission. That combined with falsely associating certain events with certain groups to smear their reputation makes the modern news indistinguishable from oppressive propaganda -- and that on both sides of the aisle.
Such suppression of truth ought to be unheard of in what used to be known as the "free" world. What happened to impartiality?
Truth above all is what creates freedom, not any particular narrative or agenda.
It's also extremely frustrating to people who are personally committed to pursue what is true (to the best of their ability), regardless of the consequences.
Every fact seems to have an attached political value or leaning. So various journalistic outlets intentionally omit facts that don't agree with their narrative -- which is lying by omission. That combined with falsely associating certain events with certain groups to smear their reputation makes the modern news indistinguishable from oppressive propaganda -- and that on both sides of the aisle.
Such suppression of truth ought to be unheard of in what used to be known as the "free" world. What happened to impartiality?
Truth above all is what creates freedom, not any particular narrative or agenda.