Bernie Sanders Biggest Fans?

[MineralMan]

38. I'm sure that's true.

News reading is an art. To get the actual news, a person has to be very discriminating and try to avoid opinion-based writings, whatever the source. People are forever posting some editorial opinion piece from, say, the New York Times, and attributing that opinion to the newspaper itself. That's deceptive. Others believe that the only real news comes from websites like commondreams.com or somewhere with a strong bias to the left.

The reality is that real news is simply a recounting of facts without comment. If someone says something, the quotation is news. Anything else is commentary on what was said. Most of what we think of as news today is not news at all, but commentary from a particular point of view.

I don't read opinions about politics. I read news. I read what people running for office actually say and think about those people based on history. I form my own opinions. It's not easy to avoid seeing opinion as news. There's so little actual news reporting out there that is uncolored by opinion. So, I read selectively and fish out the actual factual material and ignore the rest.

Then, and only then, I form my opinion. I use multiple sources, always paying attention to whatever bias that source may have. I do not read right-wing sources. I do not read left-wing sources. I read neither without a constant awareness that there is bias there. I treat all news sources as biased and read for the facts.

I don't necessarily think that others have any more valid opinions than I do. I think. I ponder. I review. But, I do form opinions. Sometimes I share those opinions, knowing that others may disagree with the conclusions I've drawn. I don't pretend to be a news source. I'm not a news source.