What we read in the news cannot be disconnected from the commercial sponsors that make news reporting possible. it takes a lot of money. A random, non-serious thought occurred to me: Have Reuters, API and the others receive their financial support from an impartial, objective federal government administration. Now let the derisive laughter die down a bit. Then the same inquisitive group of neurons put forth: What of history textbooks? The ones that are closest to being the impartial, objective sources of information we need for a useful,comprehensive & accurate body of knowledge necessary to understand the past? How do they happen? Hmm... Journalism is the documentation of history, right?
I haven't thought any of this through so it would surprise me if there weren't any big gaping holes in my logic. But I felt like I just had to tell the interwebz about it.
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