We're All in the Dark Together

Growing up, I can remember watching the news and believing every word of it. I never got even a whiff of how the on-air reporters felt about the things they said. In my teens, TV journalists appeared so honest and fair that I developed girlish crushes on a few of them. Garrick Utley was my favorite, but there was also Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, Ted Koppel, Tim Russert, Jim Vance (local to D.C.), Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. I had no idea what their party affiliations were as they delivered the news without any spin.

Today journalists don't try to hide their feelings. News readers like Anderson Cooper on CNN, Jesse Watters on FOX, Judy Woodruff on NPR, and especially that most repulsive creature Caitlyn Collins on CNN make no pretense of which team they favor. Consequently I don't take any of them seriously. 

The result is that nobody knows what the heck is going on anywhere, which is a contributing factor in the ignorance of the population, myself included. Yet each biased news organization has its devotees who swear that their truth is the real deal. The New York Times may be the worst offender, with an anti-Trump agenda so huge that it clouds any legitimate information they may present concerning world events. 

Alas, "we the people" know nothing for sure. Get that into your head and you will finally stop arguing with people with opposing viewpoints. We're all in the dark together, facing a common enemy, so we might as well play nice.