Old Memory

Something that came up a lot when I used to deal with college age people when I was far older than college age myself while living in a university town...

Seeing the bias in something but not being able to articulate it to someone who was lacking the perspective to see it.

I had noticed that NPR had a bias and I couldn't cite specific examples because I'd stopped listening when the bias became apparent.

To prove my point to their satisfaction I needed to have recent and blatant examples.

To get them, I would have had to subject myself to listening to that garbage again, so I declined to do so.

The advent of the internet made it worse.

Because after the internet I could find examples of the bias and cite them, but counters to those examples were provided by the places who were biased and since they fully vetted media with layers upon layers of fact checkers...  Fuck my lying eyes.

I do notice that the places that were making money pointing out the bias were taking screen shots.  I prolly should have done that instead of copying links.  Either the link would be dead or what I was complaining about would be edited.

Now that Trump is going through things like a scythe, I am feeling more and more vindicated about my observations from 10 plus years ago.  I say ten years because that about when I last talked to one of them.  The last of them...