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The reality is that we are fortunate enough to have freedom of the press. The difficulty is that we are fortunate enough to have freedom of the press. People and organizations are free to interpret the news as they see fit. In addition, as many have already said, people have innate, internal, personal biases that will effect their story selection and interpretation. So if you consider that we are free to choose to cover the stories we want and free to skew them as we want and the fact that even when we try not to be biased we often do so unintentionally, finding an unbiased report is virtually impossible. So, read as much as you can, listen to and watch as much as you can, and try to sift out the "truth".
Freedom is messy and difficult, as it should be.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-Douglas Adams
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