Lies

James Bennet was an editor for the NY Times who was fired because he allowed an Op Ed by Senator Tom Cotton to be published. It was during the 2020 summer riots and Cotton suggested that the National Guard be called in to quell the violence. Bennet's main complaint is that the Time's problem has metastasised from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favor one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether. He goes on to say, One of the glories of embracing illiberalism is that, like Trump, you are always right about everything, and so you are justified in shouting disagreement down. A major concern about today's national press is that they fail to report both sides of an issue. Perhaps they are afraid of losing their jobs like what happened to Bennet. More often than not the public is misled by the press not because they print something that isn't true but because they leave out part of the story. This is just another way of taking things out of context to promote a certain view. The press has become so adept at doing this that the country has lost its main line of defense against government lies. The press has become complicit in spreading half truths.