Through out the history of America there has been partisan news.
The news came in the form of pamphlets or newspapers, and damn they didn't have to be neutral because we had a free press. A free press didn't mean we had a factual press.
Along came this thing called radio, and with it came the government licencing the news people had to be careful what they put on the air. Luckily we had two major parties so there was only so much nonsense over the airways news reporting could get away with. This was true with television and radio.
The slow dieing of print media one would think would make a more honest way of getting ones news.Ah, but along came this thing called cable and we now have all kind of reporting. Well these cable news networks do the work of the old partisan newspapers did and blogs do what partisan pamphlets used to do.
We have a cable news network that starts with an F that *mirrors what Pravda did. (I know that 's Russia, OK, the Daily Worker).
Computers gave way to blogs as pamphlets did in days of yore. And it's cheap enough that even buffoons like me can write them.
*A mirror is an exact reflection only it's 180 degrees different(?).
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