Today's modern media entertains, tells stories, perhaps even spins the news...shame on them. There is some pretty damning evidence that certain "news" agencies make it their priority to hand pick the news rather than report to you what would be newsworthy if you only knew about it. I could probably build a case for that phenomenon being heavily influential on recent elections. For example, we all saw how Van Jones was pushed out of office as soon as news about him got out. But that wasn't news in the ordinary sense. It was cyber news, blogging, videos on YouTube, etc. that were shared and shared again while the big boys like the New York Times sat with it's thumb up its nose. What if more voters knew more about the people they hired to represent them in government? I think there would be a lot of changes. It's not unlikely, therefore, that there is incentive for certain papers to try to keep the status quo. Prioritizing the news has become political in many ways. And that's okay, I guess, and it's up to the journalist, news agency, media corporation, etc. to do as it wishes because, after all, this is the USA, a free place with freedoms of speech permitted even if that freedom means strrrrrrrrretching the truth. The important thing is that we, the public, realize this happens.
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