I am going to hit back at you at EC. What you are talking about is quite alright as far as it goes, but taken even to a slight bit more of an extreme it can be very, very dangerous for our society (and the world).
First of all, I do not think the newspapers and tv networks are THAT biased. Oh they are a bit. But I think that they have other problems that are worse.
1. The worst one - oversimiplifying everything so that the lowest common denominator reader/viewer can get it. I understand that reason and in some ways I suppose it is commendable not to be too "in the weeds" but some issues about financial, foreign, health and other policies really do need to be talked about at a bit higher than Homer Simpson levels if you want to really talk about them.
2. The worst one - (I know that was the one above, this is tied for first) - Pack Mentality. If it somehow becomes conventional wisdom that "Clinton is a bore" or "Trump had a terrible inaugural speech" (etc etec etc) it becomes almost impossible to write or report against that.
3. Final - Internet Click/Ratings bias. Do the easy and sexy instead of the serious. (Note - this has existed forever and on a human level and from a business standpoint it is understandable. If you owned a media outlet in China would you want to report what is most popular and got the best ratings (and ad revenue) or what is boring and "right").
That said you are going down a dangerous hole with this talk about how no media can be trusted, etc.
Perhaps some of what you say has merit about bias, but my point is different. Did you google "The Agency" from the NYTimes and read it? One of the most terrifying points is kind of glossed over, but it is that by doing all of the things Putin is doing, he has a different trick in mind. If he can convince enough people that nothing can be trusted, that any news can be purchased or is at best biased at the start, that there is no such thing as objective truth, than Putin will have done more damage to the USA than we did to Japan when we bombed them.
If no newspaper can be read, no radio news report believed, no tv news show watched, no documentary worth a viewing, than we are so effed you cannot believe it. Then everyone will just pick their own truth and we will have no common ground from which to start a conversation.
Let me put it this way. Lets say I have a neighbor on Long Island where I am right now for a business deal. Let's say we both read the NY Times. Let's say the NYTimes says that Trump wants to reduce taxes by 20 percent and economists say only half of that will be made up by the increased economic benefits. I can wander over to my neighbors house with a six pack and if he likes talking politics we can bs about it. I may say we should take care of the deficit first. He may say we should simply cut spending. His wife might pass by and chime in on how they should cut more spending but in no case should they cut education spending. WHATEVER that is a made up example
BUT, if I read one website that says Trumps cuts will explode the deficit and my neighbor reads one that says that the cuts are too small, they need to be twice as big so as to not have a deficit, in other words if we are living in two completely different informational orbits it is tough to have a conversation.
We have a lot of that today. I don't know how a listener of Rush Limbaugh and viewer of Fox News can talk politics with someone who watches Rachel Maddow and reads DailyKos and MoveOn.
And then you have this.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/news/economy/trump-administration-unemployment-bls/index.html
And this leads to what I am talking about.
We are not discussing issues from one basis point. The situation is Y, what are we going to do about it. We are disussing it as some of us are saying the situation is X what are we going to do about it (though the actual situation is Y), and others are saying the situation is Z what are we going to do about it (though the actual situation is Y).
Again, not to repeat myself but please, please read "The Agency" from the NYTimes which talks about how the Putin campaign is trying to screw up the idea of objective information itself.
The Agency. NY Times. Google. (I cannot link it from the phone I am on so I can only ask you to google it).
