I stopped listening to the media during the budget debate in the House back in 1995, when I first had the opportunity to watch C-Span. I watched the debate, and the next day, what I read and heard from the media was so divorced from what was actually said. It was clearly biased and disparaging of Republicans, and I noticed their choice of words: supportive, positive, agreeable when talking about democrats, negative, derogatory, and fear-mongering when talking about republicans. And the reporting completely distorted the arguments and positions of the two parties.
It was like a slap in the face, like the curtain had been pulled back, and the deception was plain to see. I cancelled my newspaper subscription that day.
I haven’t trusted or listened to the bastards since.