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Media Bias

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  I typically start my day with a review of Google News because it's a decent aggregator of news from a variety of sources. My favorite mobile app for news is Ground News. For $10 a year they serve up the latest headlines while also showing you which news outlets are more (or less) biased. For a little more, they'll provide even richer data and allow you to customize your news feed and topics to avoid bias. They also do a great job of highlighting "blind spots" on both ends of the spectrum - topics that news outlets leaning right or left don't cover. To summarily dismiss all media as biased is a cop out, and it's also inaccurate. In the US, it's what lazy Trumpies say to give themselves permission to not think critically, to remain willfully ignorant, and to fully embrace their own confirmation bias. Trump feeds this narrative because it works to his advantage. "I am the only source of truth, trust only that which you hear directly from me" makes