Love the "free" blogger - but let's not forget who pays for content.
I was shocked to see who Google considers trusted news sources providing "balanced points of view". The lineup: "The Hill", "Fox", "CNN", "Washington Post", "Wall Street Journal" and "NPR". An occasional "MSNBC" and once I saw a "HuffPo" article.
Has anyone actually listened to NPR lately? They are completely in the tank to corporate ideologies - about the same as the Wall Street Journal. Apparently if Republican talking points are delivered with an east coast snobbish accent, then it makes up some sort of balance to Fox News which shares the same ideology but without the "liberal" pronunciation of words.
For example today on the subject of the latest high school mass gun murder, I saw no stories in favor of getting rid of guns. On the contrary, the NYT is busy publishing letters to the editor about how we need better mental health care for the shooters.
Really Google should specify that their new method for selecting headline stories: Trusted "conservative" mouthpieces, some of whom speak with east coast accents - balancing out the mid-western, western, and southern accents one finds in other news sources.
I am done with these guys. I'll get my news elsewhere.
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