There’s a few problems with talking about the media as if they were a collective in a sort of machine sense. First off, they’re a collective of humans, and we all know how much societies screw up. Second, they’re a collective of biased humans, because humans cannot escape bias. Third, talking about them as a collective leads to immediate conspiritorial overtones; you say the media is biased, but you insinuate that they’re thinking with a groupmind, doing this on purpose.

Maybe sometimes they are. But really, people, if you think the media are so biased, don’t read them or listen to them. It’s not so hard. But then where do you get your fact from? You certainly can’t travel to Haiti and see it first hand. Maybe a better way to do it is to get to know the biases of the newspeople that you listen to and filter out the truth from what they say. You may never get the whole truth, but then again, you’ll never know you don’t have it.

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