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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • “reporting all the facts” is an editorial decision as well. There’s nothing stopping newspapers from reporting on statements by politicians and comparing those statements to the objective truth or facts within the same reporting. The only thing stopping them is all-sides-ism. I was going to say that fear of getting sued is also stopping them, but they actively do a lot of reporting that gets them sued or killed and they happily go on in the name of First Amendment and journalistic freedoms. So yeah, it’s literally an editorial decision to report only on “blah said this!” instead of “blah said this, but the facts don’t support it!”

    As for spoonfeeding, sure that’s always a bad idea. But there’s always a fine line, isn’t there?