SuperDemocrat
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I don't think we've ever known the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth with our news papers and it's been up to Historians to get the truth in to books for in depth reading....same with our schools, they are taught watered down History pre college....Newspapers were created by various people/factions to support their political preference since our creation as a Nation and even before that.... political positioning was their sole purpose, the so called ''news'' was just a by-product.... I think we've forgotten this over time...
That does seem like a pretty good and reasonable conclusion. if newspapers were created to promote certain political agendas then what was created to tell people about TRUE and objective events in the world around them. Perhaps people scrawled it on the bark of some tree with their flint blades.
Bias tends to creep in because human beings have a tendency to lie and distort things. It is kind of like telling your boss the reasons why you quit your last job. A little bias creeps in because you don't want to tell the entire truth because it may be negative but people do tend to tell the story in such a way that puts a postive light on their actions. I suspect the same thing happens in a lot of other fields such as newspapers.
What about when your last job was great and you excelled at it? No, you assume everyone is like you and most likely fired from their last place of employment. At least, that's what you appear to be saying .
We actually do assume others do as we would do. I agree with that but people tend to cover up for their own sins and live with the delusion that they do nothing wrong ever.