Spin
Everywhere: Where Is the Hard News?
With
more media broadcast, cable, and internet than ever before,
you'd think information would be at our fingertips. You'd think
that would give us a lot of choices, right? If we wanted information
about, say, the U.S. role in Yemen, or the small wars that the US
military's AFRICOM branch is fighting in Africa, you'd think it
would be easy to find, wouldn't you?
It's
not.
CNN is wall-to-wall: "Trump is a monster!" Meanwhile,
Fox News Channel provides brief moments of hard news but then quickly
sinks to the level of its biases.
And the New York Times obscures truly vital facts and makes
reading it like pulling teeth.
But, fortunately for all of us, our News Editor at Antiwar.com,
Jason Ditz, follows the news relentlessly and distills the deeper
story from many, disparate sources. So that hard-to-understand New
York Times piece? Read Jason instead; he makes the complex and
confusing understandable, and in straightforward language.
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