I find that many (thankfully not all) New Yorkers think exactly like that; and they live in such a bubble that they can’t imagine how blind they are to the rest of the country’s viewpoint.

Polls are propaganda disguised as reflecting public opinion when it actually determines public opinion and public reaction.

As for journalism:

http://www.civilwarbummer.com/shermans-media-mindset-or-the-reporters-rue/

There are serious problems with modern cosmology and geoscience, the things the Authorities told you was true but had certain little fundamental issues they neglected to include in your public education/indoctrination.

When humans tell you something, people will believe it based on a scale of Authority and Confidence. That’s what a con job is, it’s a confidence art and technique.

That is why I have learned long time ago now not to trust in whatever you humans have to claim. Only certain sources like the Holy Ghost are 100% credible and believable. Although not even all the elohim and Sons of God, are credible necessarily.

I was taught that the task of a “reporter” was to diligently search out and, then, to report the news.

Today’s “journalists” have apparently been taught that they have a duty to be “agents of change,” that they should report things in a way that will influence policy, influence events, and actions—to the benefit of a Leftist agenda.

Therefore, in all cases, when receiving “news” through the MSM, skepticism should be your default mode.
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There was one, brief, shining moment when Real Journalism was celebrated in the abstract, but it never happened in reality.
Newsmen* have always looked for and published whatever supported their agenda.

If we had been living back then, we would know that.
The history of the news business is among the simplifications that have distorted truth.

And yeah, never trust the MSM – or much of the anti-MSM either; at least their counter-spin shows that there is something underlying both sides that we get to see.

*(very few newswomen in the past, still not very many today, but they are some of the best, and many are fighting against the Dark Side where Democracy Dies)

Well, it turns out that it was likely unrepentant (said Ayers in a 2001 New York Times interview, ”I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”) urban terrorist and Communist (he says with a small “c”) Bill Ayers, who got a quickie educational degree, and went on the write the textbooks, model curriculums, lesson plans, and reading lists that are very popular, and widely used in teaching colleges and teaching training institutes all over the U.S.

What is Ayer’s teaching philosophy?

How does Bill Ayers view the U.S., its culture, and politics?

Take a look at some of the articles on this that have been published at City Journal, which says that Ayers is working every day to “bring down American capitalism and Imperialism,” and that he is teaching that “…prospective K—12 teachers need to “be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and . . . be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, a teacher teaching for social justice and liberation.”

Ayers is apparently a great fan of the late “educational philosopher” Dr. Maxine Greene of Columbia Teacher’s College, a champion of “critical pedagogy” who was very big on “social justice.”

From the City Journal 2006 article by Sol Stern titled, “The Ed Schools’ Latest–and Worst–Humbug,” which quotes both Ayers and Greene:

Said Greene, “There are vast dislocations in industrial towns, erosions of trade unions; there is little sign of class consciousness today,” Greene had proclaimed in the Harvard Education Review. “Our great cities are burnished on the surfaces, building high technologies, displaying astonishing consumer goods. And on the side streets, in the crevices, in the burnt-out neighborhoods, there are the rootless, the dependent, the sick, the permanently unemployed. There is little sense of agency, even among the brightly successful; there is little capacity to look at things as if they could be otherwise.”

“Greene told future teachers that they could help change this bleak landscape by developing a “transformative” vision of social justice and democracy in their classrooms. Her vision, though, was a far cry from the democratic optimism of the Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr., which most parents would endorse. Instead, critical pedagogy theorists nurse a rancorous view of an America in which it is always two minutes to midnight and a knock on the door by the thought police is imminent.

Thus, the City Journal says that, to Ayres’ way of thinking “…the mission of all progressive teachers is to take back the classrooms and turn them into laboratories of revolutionary change…” directed at an America that Ayres sees as almost irredeemably racist, prejudiced, unfair, oppressive, rapacious, and violent.

What are the chances of this conception of America to have migrated to Journalism schools?

I’d say pretty good.

Given this migration what, then, are the chances for Journalists in training being taught that they have to be “agents of change”?

I’d say pretty good again.

Bottom line–you can’t really trust that the “news” you are receiving is “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” because, it can be deliberately “simplified” until it really isn’t true any more, essential, key details can be left out through incompetence or deliberation, this “news” can be truncated and partial, spun, turned on it’s head, or just fabricated; the MSM can deliberately ignore any “news,” or slice it and dice it anyway they want, to fit their leftist agenda.

The idealistic model of Journalism and journalistic ethics that I, as a naive high school student was taught in English class, many decades ago is, with rare exceptions, no longer practiced, and real “journalism” is dead.

I was taught that the task of a “reporter” was to diligently search out and, then, to report the news.

Today’s “journalists” have apparently been taught that they have a duty to be “agents of change,” that they should report things in a way that will influence policy, influence events, and actions–to the benefit of a Leftist agenda.

Therefore, in all cases, when receiving “news” through the MSM, skepticism should be your default mode.