Charles is always good, this is critical:
A few years ago, I was on a radio show with a well-known political reporter who lamented the loss of a pristine past in which the whole country could agree on what the facts were, even if they disagreed on how to interpret and act upon them. All that was gone now. The country had become so fractured we couldn't even agree on what reality was. What she meant was that the day in which the front page of The New York Times was given scriptural authority everywhere was gone, shattered by
the rise of Fox News.What left me slack-jawed was the fact that she, like the cohort of mainstream journalists she represented so perfectly, was so ideologically blinkered that she could not fathom the plain fact that the liberal media were presenting the news and the world through a particular lens. The idea that it was particular, and that there might
be competing ones, perhaps even superior ones, was beyond her ken.
Get that? What is the use of "freedom" if everyone thinks there is only one "true" view of the world. That is what Fox News gave us -- it, along with National Review and Rush Limbaugh gave a lot of Americans the courage to no longer bleat in unison with the view of the MSM.
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