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Another way to look at it is the problem that many people rely on the news to tell them when something bad is happening.

That is really true. The media doesn't report news, it interprets news for you as well.

Whenever I see an outrageous headline I always think "That sounds like BS. There is probably a pretty good reason for this happening."

A great example was the man who found a line on his hospital bill for "holding his baby". The outrage!! Those greedy hospitals!

Turns out that the hospital needed to have nurse in the room and that's just how they bill for that time. Completely innocuous and reasonable. But did the media dig that up? Of course not. No one would click on an article that said "Hospital bills man for nursing services."

[tropo]

It's still outrageous.

Why the nurse? Were these people out on parole/probation/bail for child abuse? No, they were not. They are adults. They can hold their own baby without supervision, and obviously do as soon as they go home.