Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you’ve given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we’ll let you know. — 2006

My Take – I know it hasn’t really ever happened, but I really wish I could find a news source that didn’t have an editorial department.  Yes, I know that the ideal of a neutral news organization that only reports the facts without spinning it or cherry picking what gets reported for political purposes is a myth, and that the press has never truly been unbiased.

But it seems that in the past couple of decades even the genteel facade of neutrality that I remember seeing in the papers and on the evening news growing up has been stripped away.  News organizations seem to be either rabidly out to destroy those in power if they disagree with them, or they seem to be the worlds biggest cheering section and smoke screen for those they like.

As someone who tries to be an informed voter, I find myself doing a lot of coin flipping in deciding whose reportage is accurate, and whose is nothing more than political editorializing with a news banner over it.  I wish it weren’t so.