If you really want to know the facts or truths in the news reports in the USA, you really need to read this advice.
Everyone probably knows the majority of news being reported in the USA media is biased based on who owns the news source, or the political views of the writers on various blogs, twitters, Facebooks may be gossip or even indoctrination.
The Purpose of This Post
Is to relate an ancient wisdom proverbs and help guide anyone interested how to discern the news from someone who has actual firsthand experience obtained from living in a totalitarianism Nation and acquired the necessary skills now needed in the USA to read a news article and discern “what really happened.”.
King Solomon 3000 Years Ago
Proverbs 17:9 – He that covered a transgression seecatch love; but he that repeated a matter separated [very] friends.
Proverbs 18:8 – The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Mark Twain 1863
“A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.”
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
In My Opinion
If you really want to learn to read a news report to discern “what really happened” I highly recommend you read the link below.
You Decide
Wise or foolish advice?
Whether you agree with the writer’s political view or not, is the advice perhaps a sad warning of the political governing path the USA the current news media agenda will lead us in the nearing future?
Regards and goodwill blogging.
Rudy u Martinka 
confusion is too simple here, a nation divided on the U.S. scale, is two arms pulling each other apart, whoever wins doesn’t matter, the legacy, we did this to ourselves, news or no news, amen
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Amen,, I agree, we do it to ourselves.
Thanks for your comment.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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THIRD POLITICAL PARTY AN ESSENTIAL NOW FOR REAL DEMOCRACY, stay well Rudy, never give up hope, times like these have been written about, amen
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Now is the time for us all to follow the WAY of Jesus and the way of love.
Blessings.
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Michael.
Wise advice for troubling times like we are now experiencing.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Michael,
I used your comment in my post today titled’ Hey Joe Biden Conundrum?
https://rudymartinka.com/2021/01/16/hey-joe-biden-conundrum-king-solomon-blog/
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Thanks. Love the Lincoln quote.
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The way of Jesus, compassion, kindness, to all, and love for thy neighbors, amen
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While social media’s flaws are notable, it nevertheless has enabled far greater non-gate-keeping information freedom — particularly in regards to corporate environmental degradation — than that by what had been a news-monopoly mainstream news-media, including those of print.
The mainstream news-media have lost both information control (e.g. story parameterization) and, perhaps most problematic for them, advertisement revenue to popular social media platforms.
Though I don’t know his opinion of social media in general, renowned American author and linguistic/cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky noted that while there are stories published about man-made global warming, “It’s as if … there’s a kind of a tunnel vision — the science reporters are occasionally saying ‘look, this is a catastrophe,’ but then the regular [non-environmental pro-fossil fuel] coverage simply disregards it.”
Although it’s a couple decades late, I believe that progressive movements are far more effective with the unprecedented informative and organizational abilities made widely available by social media.
I also noticed that many news outlets that criticize social media will still use Facebook as the sole means by which readers can comment on posted articles.
(Frank Sterle Jr.)
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Thank you for your comment.
Frankly, if something is not done soon by Congress to remedy both news medial and social media to protect free speech of opinions, we will all be entering the future depicted of 1984.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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