I am a bit surprised...
...that this comment has garnered a majority of down-votes, for its fundamental tenant - all the media outlets are entertainment business who engage in erm... "truth manipulation" for sales seems quite true to me.
I do wonder if this sentence has been misinterpreted: "I pity the person who thinks only Fox News lies, but their news outlet tells the truth". On first read through, I took this to mean that "their" referred to Fox News, i.e. "I pity the person who thinks only Fox News lies, but Fox News tells the truth"
I then re-read it as "I pity the person who thinks only Fox News lies, but the news outlet *the person* reads tells the truth", which made much more sense.
I would like to quote Paul Simon here, from his song "Have a Good Time:"
"I don't believe what I read in the papers / They're just out to capture my dime"
That was written back in 1975. Nothing much has changed in 46 years...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
