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They could do worse than to start off by teaching that Palestine never existed.

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Surely, they have a thumb twiddling class.

Any Freepers in the area should sign up for the class to be sure the truth is represented.

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires . . . The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certaindegree of esteem and respect . . .
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
IOW, everything you hear must be presumed to be propaganda until it passes dispassionate skeptical scrutiny. Fake “news” is everywhere; you cannot simply pay 5¢ (back in the day) or even $3 (today) and get “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Objectivity is difficult to the point of impossibility. Consequently a claim by any news source of actual (as opposed to aspirational) objectivity is the very first tipoff that that news source is not objective about itself. Or, you may be sure, about much if anything else.
The sine qua non of any honest attempt at objectivity is candor about any reasons which might tend to prevent you from being objective about the subject of your discussion. And such a preamble in a news story is, quite frankly, outside of my experience. You can pretty much say that any claim that “the news is that . . . “ is, in and of itself, a highly suspect claim of objectivity.