The media used to put objectivity above all else. The public trusted the media to give fair and balanced coverage.

"No year during George W. Bush's, Bill Clinton's, George H.W. Bush's or Ronald Reagan's presidency was as safe as 2015," according to a summary prepared by the project leaders. "Violent crime in the U.S. is near historic lows and the country is dramatically safer than it was 45 years ago, 25 years ago, and 10 years ago."

Did we just pass some massive and trans-formative gun control law that I didn't notice?

Firearms were used in 71.5 percent of the nation’s murders, 40.8 percent of robberies, and 24.2 percent of aggravated assaults.

most of their guns are allready illeagle.

Exactly. Gallup shows public trust of the media to report news objectively at an all-time low.

Rather than assessing why the mistrust exists, the media continue to act as if only irrational people (i.e. non-Democrats) mistrust them.

I personally think the internet makes it harder to hide stories that hurt the reporters' points of view, but most media outlets continue to treat the internet as if it consisted solely of lies, and therefore can remain ignored.

Now it's all about sensationalism... doing anything and everything to suck in viewers.

Yet the Black Lives Matter movement is based on a lie. The idea that the United States is experiencing an epidemic of racially-driven police shootings is false — and dangerously so.

A combination of footage from Cole’s and Jackson’s body cameras was shown to the public for the first time during the Sept. 26 City Council meeting. After the video was played, the mayor, council members and the police chief publicly apologized to Yourse, who was in attendance.

“It’s hard to watch a video like that and not feel moved to do something and try to make it right to a degree,” City Council member Justin Outling said.

Scott said the incident “is not indicative of what we as a police department want our citizens to experience.”


“I’m sorry,” he said, “and it was wrong.”

John Ehrlichman on creating the "war on drugs":

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin.
And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

Margaret Holcomb, an 81-year-old woman from Amherst, Mass., grew a single marijuana plant in her garden, tucked away behind the raspberries. She used it to ease the ailments of old age: glaucoma, arthritis and the occasional sleepless night.

She hadn't tried to get a medical marijuana card, because of the challenges of getting a doctor's approval, she told the Daily Hampshire Gazette. And traveling to the dispensary in the next town over and paying for marijuana grown by someone else would be too costly, she feared.

So on the afternoon of Sept. 21, a team of Massachusetts State Police and Massachusetts National Guard troops sent a helicopter, several vehicles, and a handful of troopers to Holcomb's house to chop down the plant and haul it away in a pickup truck.