was very and continuously biased against Hillary Clinton -- but there're more great news sources than ever before, doing more investigative journalism right now than ever before. And the numbers and various orientations available!

And those of the past weren't perfect either and weren't held to the generally higher standards that have developed for the best since. Today we can look up media bias ratings (checking every one available, understanding that some are actually disinformation propaganda) to find sources considered highly factual.

I'm reminded of the "great" newsmen of WWII and after, like Edward R. Murrow, who watched 8 years of Harry Truman's presidency and from beginning to end never changed their initial terribly wrong groupthink that Truman was a hopelessly incompetent hick who was accidentally elevated far above his natural level. They spread their own bumpkinish bigotry through print, radio and TV for 8 years and far past.

Today, Truman's generally regarded by historians as a near-great who, if it weren't for his mistake of invading Korea, would qualify for Mount Rushmore.

The people that make their living doing things they think might be bad often have internal conflicts about what it is and why they are doing it. That aside, you can be sure if there is lots of money in it somebody will be doing it (especially if there is not a law against it at the time).

ways than starving them out, though. Sinclair's lying to their audiences, so inevitably some of those lies will eventually come back to hurt them. How to help that process along, and speed it up...

Important information.

I like The Root and getting to where I read it every day.

Public Radio can't air political commercials, but they are held to a much higher standard of tructh and should be supported

minds trapped in right-wing information deserts. I'd love to donate for stronger signals.

But it won't do a lot for this one. I know a bunch of people who'd no more be able to listen with open minds to public radio than they'd be willing to be hooked up to a machine for a liberal brainwashing. Last time I inflicted NPR on one of them, thinking a piece on a science subject would appeal to his science-oriented personality, he listened with great hostility only for things he imagined proved it was all part of an evil left-wing plot to take over the nation (i.e., everything that conflicted with the lies he was soaked in), but he couldn't take it long and I had to turn it off.

This guy isn't technically stupid, he has a bachelor's degree in some kind of biology, and he grew up in the Atlanta metro area, but personality soaked in Sinclair-type Kook-Aid is ruling. His is conservative, and we know a bunch like him..