It really is sad what we have come to call "news" these days. Given all the valuable sources of data open to us here in the 21st century, we tailor our "news" to our preconceptions so that what we "already know to be true" is simply reinforced. We have gone from the news supplying information to "infotainment" to (at best) data. We can't call it information any more because information implies context and meaning which our hundreds of channels and millions of Web pages tend not to supply and because when it IS available most people are too intellectually lazy to dig deeper, simply willing to take what is given to them at face value.
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