Usually, it's a lot of work. It can take a lot of research and digging to get at the truth, and often only time brings it out.
I watch TV news when something is happening I want to see on TV, like a Shuttle launch. Otherwise, I track my own information, often using the same sources reporters do. Or better ones.
The Katrina aftermath was a glaring example of the failures of "popular" journalism, with many badly researched stories and outright false stories treated as known facts. Fox News was a particularly bad offender, but not the worst.
Look at this current Palin thing. Anonymous sources, and second and third-hand information treated as hard facts. You wouldn't take that to the bank if it was simple neighborhood gossip. Why do it just because some talking head is saying it on TV?
The truth isn't that easy to find.
The whole thread (70 posts)
- "Sarah Palin 'did not know Africa was a continent', say aides"
- Turns out none of it's true.
- What Rush says about the Palin revelations.
- The Left, and the RINOs, are still scared of her.
- Scared of her? Hardly. Scared of the people supporting her still.
- She's being trashed by the Right...
- No. She's being trashed by a faction of the Republican Party.
- Big difference between MSNBC and Fox
- I don't watch either of them.
- Big difference between MSNBC and Fox
- No. She's being trashed by a faction of the Republican Party.
- re: The Left, and the RINOs, are still scared of her.
- She can still get a look in.
- And let's face it...
- She can still get a look in.
- Her own campaign aids and McCain's are the ones dishing this.
- Scared of her? We're delighted with her! God, I hope she runs in 2012! (n/t)
- That's coming from you Conservatives. She's the best you have. (n/t)
- Didn't I hear or read that she also bought a bunch of clothes for her kids on the Republican charge card so to speak? (n/t)
- Heh, heh. This is NOT from "The Onion". Not made up. And how she handled her staff.