Journalists Can't Be Trusted Even to Try to Check Their "Facts"

SEE HERE This would be funny if it were not so pathetic. I suppose we can chalk it up to the internet age where spinning a story takes nothing more than a computer and some imagination. Will Rogers used to say "I only know what I read in the newspapers" but increasingly that means you really don't know anything except spin. There's not much you can do unless you want to do your own fact checking. My strategy is to read the spin on both sides, believe nothing, and take the average using a certain amount of plausibility judgment in the meantime.