MEDIA: Answer these questions

In Steve Cameron’s two-part column on “Fake News,” he concentrated on the very correct concept that verification is important to detect Fake News. However, there is far more to Fake News than just verification. How and what the media chooses to cover may be even more important. What follows are several examples:

On U.S. highways four people are killed every hour. This is the same amount that are killed by opiate overdoses. However, since the media is very liberal biased, and anti-firearms, they choose to drag out coverage of shootings for days or weeks. So, while the media talks about 17 deaths in Florida on and on, hundreds, or maybe thousands, have died from far more likely threats than guns. Here is another:

Ask yourself: What is the most powerful special interest movement in America? Hints: It is not the NRA, and has a cabinet level position named after them. The answer: The environmental movement. And yet, have you seen one minute on TV or one paragraph in print about this powerful force? The media liked what these folks were saying, so they never bothered to investigate them. Here is another:

Ask yourself: What public organization is the most discriminatory in America? Answer: the Grammys. If you were a white, male rock group, you were SOL.

President Trump was very correct to call media bias (Fake News) to the public’s attention. What the media chooses to cover may be the most important factor.

DOUGLAS WEIR

Hayden