O.J. Simpson and the Boeing 737-Max
It's either that people don't care what really happened, or news reporters just can't help themselves. I was complaining not long ago about how you can't find unbiased news anymore. Okay, so big deal. Let's embrace it. It's been going on long enough that I have to assume this is the way people want it - bias doesn't bother people and is in fact welcome. We don't want to just hear what happened and sort it out for ourselves. We want someone to tell us who the bad guy is, which is a lot easier than trying to distill the information yourself.
I still can't get over the fact that newspapers endorse candidates, but I guess that's a problem with my expectations. It was my mistake to think that a news source would remain neutral. I thought I had learned that in grade school, but... I don't know - grade school was a long time ago. Plus, everybody just rolls with it so okay... that's how we do it. We like our news to be presented with a slant.
Honestly I'm probably overestimating the difference that 100% guaranteed unbiased news reporting would make. As I think the title to this post shows, no matter what you have to report, the reader is probably going to make a few assumptions going in. I think news is ultimately presented to us the way we expect it to see it. Unfortunately.
