The following quip has been attributed to Mark Twain. “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
In my view, that warning still applies. One must often go to several different sources of news in order to get some semblance of the whole truth.
Nowadays, some sources of news admit their biases. Other sources claim to provide the unbiased truth about what they report. I have found that to be an often false claim. In my view, those sources possess some combination of a lack of self-awareness, dishonesty, ignorance and sloth.
In order to get the whole story on matters that concern me, I always have to go to several different sources. Even so, I am rarely certain of the whole truth.
Whatever happened to who, what, when, where, why and how? Is it really that difficult?
Byron Bagnell, Millcreek
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