RE: Having a hard time really knowing who to trust in politics anymore
October 18, 2016 at 9:44 am
(October 18, 2016 at 9:17 am)abaris Wrote: Yeah, but I wouldn't rely on something like that. Even if I like the way something is reported, I go check left, right and center if I'm sufficiently interested in a certain topic.
The nature of the game is knowing where the medium in question is leaning to. If it's mainstream, it's still based on facts. The only remaining question is what the particular paper, show or network make of the facts and how they interpret them.
I wouldn't rely solely on it, but my point was that comedy shows like that actually do a better job at reporting facts than the major news networks.
They might take a liberal viewpoint on the facts, but it's like Jon Stewart said. "Reality has a liberal bias."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
