Infowars dosen't have it, and RawStory doesn't have it. All they have is clickbait horseshit to feed into pre-existing beliefs for the stories they run that cite twitter feeds and 4chan posts. The fact that this horseshit even gets placed alongside the occasional story by actual reporters at real publications when it is aggregated by google news literally sickens me.
We are living in an age where Truth with a capital T is dead. Not because people are suddenly "woke," "red-pilled," or whatever you want to call it, suddenly able to see propaganda when it rears it's head as it so often does, but because these people can no longer discern questions and innuendo from verifiable facts and are less capable of telling the difference than ever before.
There has always been some overlap of fact, questions, and innuendo in true investigative reporting, but never in my lifetime (born in the early 80s) have the leaps of logic been so great and the ideology so stubborn as to deny everything you dislike (that does not conform) and accept everything you do like (that does conform) as it is today.
When people I otherwise respect text me stories only found on sites whose agenda is clearly based on supporting one ideological lie or the other, I sigh sadly, knowing there is nothing I can say to convince them otherwise.
This is the great tragedy of our time. Once upon a time, people were at least willing to frame their ideas as opinion, and acknowledge them as such. Not anymore. Belief becomes fact for such folks. When opinion becomes truth, Truth is dead.
Damn, well done.
I would have to add that "journalists," you know, the reporters who think they are actually journalists, are so caught up in activist reporting now that the lines are blurred. It is literally in almost all media now. The truth is dead. I would ask, was it ever really present?
I don't doubt, and know some journalists who try really hard to remain non-biased and do good work. They are now a minority, very rare indeed. Go back to Hearst and all the manipulations of "truth." Then skip ahead to Operation Mockingbird. Skip ahead again to one of Obama's last acts as president, signing the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act which authorizes the use of propaganda inside the U.S.
You mentioned the sad sigh because people send you stories only found on sites that have an idealogical bent. Some good discernment. But I would go further to suggest the sites that don't publish the same stories have their own agendas and biases. It's just that they are all on the same playbook page and ideology so you have to consider what is not being reported. I'm not suggesting there are wacky stories that are just complete bullshit. But offering that just because the MSM does not publish the wacko story does not mean they are to be relied upon as being truthful. When discussing the media with the general public one of most important things I tell them is to pay attention to what the media is not covering. We are bombarded with so much noise, and it really appears deliberate. One only has to watch MSM TV for a short period to see how it all works.
Money quote:
Belief becomes fact for such folks. When opinion becomes truth, Truth is dead.