[Yaelle]

Oh my, this is rich.

How would “news stories” be defined? Maybe you can have video proof that a storm hit the town or a plane did crash. But on any political topic, the stories are 99% propaganda. They aren’t “news.” Of course people can’t pick out the truth. They don’t have video of the event; they are relying on a well oiled propaganda machine to disseminate falsehoods, and the people are told this is true.

So you can only measure how well a piece of propaganda does at influencing thought in a reader. There is no relation to truth, in any political story.

[norwaypinesavage]

I started working for a company while a long ago friend who had worked there for a while was out on leave. He had crashed his air plane and was out for several months with serious injuries. When he returned, I pointed out to him a news paper clipping dealing with his crash. I said something like: "Did you see this?

After reading the story, he turned to me and said: "You know, I crashed my airplane, too". That's right, HE DID NOT RECOGNIZE THAT THE NEWS STORY WAS ABOUT HIS OWN PLANE CRASH. If a news paper can't even get a plane crash story right, how can they ever get political stories right?