How the News Media Colors Our Beliefs

I have a few conservative friends who like to make points like the one here, i.e., that the news about violence and hate is blown out of proportion, as compared with what actually exists out there.

I’m unconvinced.

Whether the news covers it or not, Donald Trump is trying to overthrow the U.S. government.  Depending on how things progress here, Ron DeSantis may replace him as the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, a man who’s ideologically even more backwards than Trump himself.  Women’s right are being eroded.  Important books are being banned from our schools.  Our planet is baking, and our schoolchildren are being mowed down by lunatics with assault weapons.

As Aldous Huxley told us, facts don’t disappear simply because they are being ignored.