Reply #10: Here's one way........ [View All]

If you believe, as I do, that the media exists to portray things the way THEY and their OWNERS want us to see them, then it's fairly easy to dismiss everything they portray as propaganda and spin. I read my news online, from a variety of sources. So I think I get a fleshed out version of as many facts as are out in the open -- I love DU and other liberal sites because there is diligence in the vetting of stories and their accuracy.

Then, IF the major media report something truthfully, I try to look at what motivated them to do so. They don't do it without an agenda. Sorry if I sound awfully cynical, but's that's how I deal with the media. Mostly. Of course some days I'm less diligent and I succumb to some stupid "sound-byte" -- but usually the next week's news helps me to adjust my views on that.