The fact is there but unseen

Here’s an article in a “journalism” trade publication that actually cites a fact for once, but dismisses the fact.

The author asks whether loss of trust in media causes people to tune out, or tuning out causes loss of trust. Given the author’s profession, she naturally concludes that people lost trust AFTER they stopped watching her perfect and holy product. But at one point she mentions the CORRECT problem without connecting it:

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“Some countries do have a strong partisan divide when it comes to trust in news — but many do not,” Fletcher said. “In many European countries television news aims to be, or is required to be, impartial.”

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Before the 1980s our TV news was REQUIRED to be impartial. The FCC monitored everything and pulled licenses fast if a radio or TV station took only one side.

That’s why we trusted news back then.

GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP WORKED.

Without the censorship, media ALWAYS takes one partisan side. Newspapers were never censored, and they were never impartial.