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You've got to be kidding me. This administration has abandoned any semblance of trying to tell the truth. Trump supporters even acknowledge that Trump is lying to them (Mexico is still gonna pay for that wall amiright?). Trump attacks the media, probably almost daily viciously and once again without any moral compass around truth telling
Conservatives pass lie after bald faced lie from ostensibly the most powerful person in the word, and then they are all "OMG, a newspaper has a liberal bent, that's the real story here."
Give me a break.
I think that is partially true, exoplanet. Certainly, Donald Trump is one of the most openly mendacious and flippant presidents we have had. But I think you are missing the bigger picture with regard to the whole liberal bias issue.
It is not the fact that so many media organizations have a strong left-leaning bias that rankles so many conservatives such as myself. And I would argue that it is for the same reason that so many honest people on the left constantly got steamed when Fox News claimed itself "Fair and Balanced" when it leaned conservative in its coverage and editorial bias. That is, it is the fact that so many news organizations have a strong left-leaning bias but present themselves as neutral, objective and completely lacking any self-interest in the way they cover and present the news. No one likes to feel that they are being actively or passively lied to when they are being presented their information.