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Why not endeavor beforehand to find out the truth, and report ONLY that? Jesus never gave Satan "equal time."

HEAR, HEAR!

Then again, one man's truth is another man's trash? To coin a phrase ;^)

Also, add to the equation, some time ago(who knows when?) some in the journalism community discovered sensationalism sells newspapers. And later, broadcast discovered a similar phenomenon. WHO of the journalism industry were the most likely candidates to pursue the attention getting stories? Limp wristed bleeding hearts or conservatives? WHO were likely the better at creative writing? That is, add a little pizzaz to a story to make it better? Conservatives? I don't think so.

Capture the industry; capture the audience, then feed them what will actually keep them dazed and confused. Throw in some warm and fuzzies about big government being available to tackle their delicate condition and voila. In other words, just buy the soap and hamburgers and let "us" handle things.

Marvin Olasky has a book called "The Prodigal Press." While I don't agree with his entire slant, he argues that the press used to be Christian and religious; that the owners/publishers were first and foremost concerned with advancing God's kingdom through truth; and that the press only became irresponsible in the late 1800s when it began to abandon God.

There is truth to some of that; but the partisan press of the 1840s/50s was not concerned in the least with advancing God's kingdom, only that of Andrew Jackson! It is not debatable, though, that today's journalists, as shown by survey after survey, are non-religious to the extreme. (The last survey I saw showed that only 8% of journalists go to church or synagogue on a regular basis).