Very true.
Couple that with agenda-driven news sources and it gets really bad. The NYT used a picture of a “starving child” in Gaza, ribs poking through a malnourished body, with a headline that blamed Israel for starving kids to death. First, no recollection of Hamas beheading women and children in their attack on Israel. Second, no revealing that the child was suffering from a disease that didn’t allow her to keep food down and her condition had nothing to do with starvation. The NYT, in typical fashion and well after its lie has served its purpose, will bury a retraction on the Want-Ads page saying it’s sorry for the mistake. I wouldn’t even use the NYT to line a bird cage...