Why mainstream media really sucks
Al Gore says he invented the Internet? Congress declares pizza a vegetable? Federal judge rules that cigarettes have free speech? Europe says water doesn’t prevent dehydration? Based on these headlines, the average American might conclude that a significant portion of the world has suddenly contracted whatever intelligence-sapping disease seems to be plaguing certain Republican presidential candidates.
The problem is that these headlines, and the “reporting” that accompanies them, are saturated with intentional exaggerations and gross misrepresentations of information that serve no other purposes beside attracting audiences and manipulating public opinion.