Matthew Continetti explains the problem with how news is reported in a very good National Review piece:
They’re Wrong About Everything
Continetti explains:
“Events are turning me into a radical skeptic. I no longer believe what I read, unless what I am reading is an empirically verifiable account of the past. I no longer have confidence in polls, because it has become impossible to separate the signal from the noise. What I have heard from the media and political class over the last several years has been so spectacularly proven wrong by events, again and again, that I sometimes wonder why I continue to read two newspapers a day before spending time following journalists on Twitter. Habit, I guess. A sense of professional obligation, I suppose. Maybe boredom.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448929/media-democrats-republicans-does-anyone-know-anything
Between the mainstream media running Dem spin, Fox News running Trump spin and Twitter being the news sausage factory, we’re stuck in a news vacuum, despite being inundated with breathless reporting. This news dilemma seems much like the situation with TV, where we have hundreds of channels, yet nothing worth watching.
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