“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
Often attributed to Mark Twain, but it’s not his.
Yes, I remember that one, so true.
Partisan media is nothing new-—but with the “advances” in technology—now this stuff is broadcast and spewed all the time and everywhere.
My Pastor use to say—sorry for being graphic—
“ do not pay much attention to the news or movies ,ect....you might as well go out in your yard, dig up the sewer line and put the pipe in your window and have raw sewage coming into your home” Paraphrasing there a bit-
but the point is true—it is a sewer-—
The silver lining in them "going overboard" is that their credibility takes a hit. When they appear (to the ignorant viewer) to be honest, they are most dangerous.