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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9574688" data-attributes="member: 18">If you believe news any news outlets aren't interpreting right and wrong for you to at least some degree, I'm not sure what to tell you, because the cold fact is that they are. You need to be real and think critically about what spin/bias is being applied, consciously and unconsciously, by various outlets.Most of it isn't even political bias in a conventional sense, it's cultural bias.Re: Gaiman that's just factually inaccurate. The issue wasn't a political one but rather a caution one, which is another form of bias you seem to be ignoring. Some papers, especially more mainstream ones, are much more cautious about reporting certain stories, especially if they're potential libellous or just might make them look bad if they turn out to be inaccurate. So the story came in from more fringe media first and as it got more confirmed and detailed, got reported by more and more mainstream media.News sources, including big/mainstream ones, are also sometimes unreasonably incautious about reporting certain stories, if they think they have a scoop. The NYT has published a few absolute nonsense stories, basically pure fiction, over the last year because it thought they were scoops, and because of cultural bias, trusted the people reporting the stories to them ("They went to Ivy League universities and are from respectable families, they must be trustworthy!"). Anything that's a "scoop" should thus be held to a pretty high standard proof-wise.</blockquote>

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