There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.
In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.