One of the reasons I got interested in politics was I started reading the transcripts of the administration briefings. I was shocked at the difference between what the administration said, and what got reported they said.
Bottom line, CBS, NYT and WP are all capitalist organizations organized for profit. They make that profit by getting you to consume their product, and they get you to do that by making the news more exciting. One need not look for liberal bias, one need only look for “conflict bias”.
The news we see or read every day is more and more just “made up” in the newrooms. If Professional Wresting isn’t a “Sport” but “Sports Entertainment”, our media has become not “News” but “News Entertainment”. So something like “memogate” isn’t particularly surprising to me. I don’t expect 60 Minutes to be any more accurate in their coverage then CSI is accurate with the science.
Of course, you’re not going to be convinced by anything I say, so I’ll make a suggestion.
Stop relying on the mainstream media to report what the White House, DOD, etc. actually said. Instead, go to their websites and subscribe to the transcripts.
You’ll find, as I did, that the news we get from the MSM is so distorted/filtered as to be meaningless. Realize I’m not asking you to believe the Administration, I’m merely asking you to go directly to the source for what the Administration said, not let it be filtered by the media.
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