[refermech]

Yes, facts are stubborn things. I hope you are correct. Past history is not encouraging though. Even though we can vote with our wallets, I would say the press has become more biased in the last 20 or so years. The mechanisms for correction are there, but the public isn’t doing their part.(they are being fed bad information by the press!)

[Lucky Dog]

The real, long term answer for the "biased press" issue lies outside of the press all together. The long term answer is rooted in an" educated" citizenry.

The current, public, education system turns out more than a few "indoctrinated" citizens, but precious few, truly "educated" ones. Truly "educated" citizens think critically and know how to properly use logic.

Such "educated" citizens understand that mere presentation of information does not necessarily equate to presentation of "truth" or reality. These "educated" citizens know enough of human nature to examine the motives of those who would "present" to them and to view the information thus presented in light of those motives as well as to critically examine and verify the presented information.

Until we can get our mass education system to routinely produce such "educated" citizens, we will have to continually confront the problem of bias in the press as well as other places such as entertainment and art.