"To the English voters their newspaper is their Bible. They take their cue from their newspapers which are often dishonest. The same fact is differently interpreted by different newspapers, according to the party in whose interests they are edited. One newspaper would consider a great Englishman to be a paragon of honesty, another would consider him dishonest" (15).
This point reminded me of my government class last year in high school. We spent a long time talking about news and media and the different biases they often have. Shows like The Colbert Report and the O'Reilly Factor are most obviously biased and should not even be considered real news. Certain newspapers, such as the New York Times, are known to favor leftist or rightest ideas. It is hard to find unbiased news and to approach a news story objectively.
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