In a guest column for the Shiny Herd substack, Rob Rosen, author of Crimes of Omission, writes: I am going to say something that might be very unpopular to many people: The media doesn’t lie to you.
If you turn on MS NOW, CBS or Fox News Channel, most of the stories you’ll see are factually correct. After all, most networks have a team of risk averse lawyers whose sole job is to protect the corporation’s financial interests. My guess is that the in-house Fox attorneys who approved the Dominion conspiracy stories did not find that it enhanced their career prospects in the Murdoch empire.
That’s not to say news isn’t biased. It obviously is. But the distortions in modern-day journalism don’t come from what’s actually reported—they come from everything that’s left out.