Morning Glory: Trump versus Biden 2.0, part two

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"News is where you look," is a statement often attributed to Dan Rather but one which I’ve never been able to pin down to a source. Whether Rather said it or it was somebody else, the statement is true. Your "news" is different from your neighbors’ "news" and very different from the"news" in different states and, of course, in different countries. Every single bit of "news" you consume is impacted by your personal "selection bias."

There are indeed "alternative facts," as Kellyanne Conway once argued to Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press" years ago. I was a member of the panel on the set that memorable Sunday morning. Instantly Conway was accused by "fact checkers" of "saying the quiet part out loud," along with the usual condemnations from the usual suspects. In fact, there are indeed alternative facts all around us. But if you never depart your own bubble—be it a "blue bubble" or a "red bubble"—you will be surprised when you encounter those facts.

Thomas Jefferson was famously a critic of the newspapers of his era. "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper," he wrote in 1807. "Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day."

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