We're discussing this cuz a particular poster feels this is a conservative vs lib issue scotus-wise... So do you feel it is a conservative vs lib issue? Pretend it was a youth wearing a BLM covid-mask being blamed as confrontational & blocking a peaceful pro-lifer with identical circumstances in which it blows up on social media then MSM runs with the partial story instead of a more full accurate story.
Ha ha, that's a good one, the media reporting it that way.
Seriously, as much as my opposition would claim that I side with anything conservative, the truth is that the only thing that I value above all else is...the truth. If I could push a 'truth' button such that the truth in all things past and present would be instantly revealed, I would push it before you could blink an eye and I'd gladly deal with the fallout [what? Dean was paying off the refs and K was unfairly judged?]. Of course, where I've been on the internet and that kind of thing would be excluded.
I don't want to automatically couch things or see things couched in conservative terms, I want to know that I can take the news at face value and
then couch things conservatively. I want the stark reality, because I am a realist.
So whether you believe it or not, and even with my admission to having my prejudices, I would protest your scenario as much as any other. But if it was reported factually, I would find it perfectly acceptable as far as it goes. I say that with this in mind...the most common oath before providing testimony in a court of law says 'the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Context is key. Reporting a fact out of context can be purposely misleading.
But let's go just a bit further. You might say yeah but in regard to so and so, you contradicted what you just said. And I might have, because in arguing points against someone who is arguing disingenuously, the temptation to fight fire with fire is strong. But an argument on a message board falls under true freedom of speech. Commercial media shouldn't have the same latitude.
Have you ever stopped to consider the enormous influence media has had in this country, with maybe the greatest bulk of it tinged legally yellow?