Never hire a reporter who has a university journalism degree. At one time, probably before World War II, they didn’t usually have a degree from college. Needless to say the common college graduates have been shifted to the left.
I studied Journalism in college for a semester, before i changed to Creative writing. i did learn Who, Where, Why, When, and What?. Today, when i read what many journalists write...they don't cover all the facts pertaining to what they are writing.
When I was growing up (right after WW II, most of the reporters were writers who wanted to investigate and report on what was going on locally and worldwide. They actually tried to report rather than make judgments. Not that there weren't obvious instances of yellow journalism, but it seems like opinion rather than reporting took over sometimes during or after the 1970's.
Here is an example of when I query Dr Robert Malone on Google (which absolutely needs to be broken up by the federal government for monopolizing the industry). I own an Android which is owned by the Alphabet Company. When I attempt to use a different search engine, my phone starts doing weird things.
This is the first thing displayed via Wikipedia:
Robert Wallace Malone (born October 20, 1959)[1][2] is an American physician and biochemist. His early work focused on mRNA technology,[3] pharmaceuticals, and drug repurposing research. He is credited for the first successful transfection of designed mRNA packaged within a liposomal nanoparticle.[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Malone promoted misinformation about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.[1][5][6][7][8].
You have to keep scrolling to get less propaganda.
Interestingly enough, GK Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc predicted after WW2 that the threat that would take over would be a cabal of globalists controlling the "official narrative" and that that narrative was already being pushed by the NYT. So in essence their premise was Nazism was defeated but in the next 100yrs this will be the predominant threat.
Never trust them for anything even remotely political. I find wiki convenient to look up a city or state or country, or well-known people's age, spouse(s), children, etc. Maybe the basics of their biography.
Of course they are! I can't stand Wiki and I laugh every time they ask me for money but my point is that the Google algorithm picks that first to display in the query. I believe I was forced to use Microsoft Explorer for my Master's class in 2025 and since it is owned by Gates, that query for Dr Malone was patently false the first 8 to 10 stories. The third article that came up was "Discredited Doctor Robert Malone falsely claims to have invented the mRNA technology."
Oh I've tried. I love Duck Duck Go. That's one of my favorites but I unknowingly set myself up for this because the phone is a Google Pixel. So dumb things happen like X won't open on that browser or I can't auto login to my 350 accounts etc.
Jean mentioned she had a Samsung and doesn't have these issues. I think it's time to drop the Pixel.
Mark37.com Ghost Phone (no other website--mark37.com is the only valid one) is a Pixel that is degoogled, a privacy phone with Graphene OS than Google's OS. You can change your current Pixel to Graphene OS without switching phones; just switch operating systems and go private.
I noticed Wikipedia's biases many years ago when I was curious enough to look up homeopathy. And then I thought I'd correct some of the garbage that was on there, only to find that this platform, that had started out as public edited, had certain categories that were locked to the public. Curious, I looked up other "controversial" (i.e. not mainstream) topics, and it was true of every one of them, whereas something that was strictly informational (such as geographical information) could easily be edited.
I too have Android (Samsung). I've never used Google. At this point I'm relying on my browsers (Brave) search. It seems to come up with acceptable options.
Yep, I like Brave too. Been using it for several years already.
What is surprising to me is how few people seem to know about it.
I'm using Brave on a laptop though, as I don't and won't own a smart phone from either Apple or especially Google. My old flip phone is a phone in the true sense of the word, it has no internet connection turned on.
If I were to get a smart phone it would run a Graphine O/S.
Wikipedia is pretty much worthless as far as trying to find any truth there, and has been for a few years. I quit them as soon as they instantly removed Clinton's name from anything Epstein a few years ago....
Plus literally anybody can (or could then) edit a listing.
I figured they had to stop it somehow. I edited a couple myself back then just to see if it could be done - and put Clinton's name back in everywhere. LOL
I agree but why is it leftists always get in there and alter the information? They have a term for those people that can edit. I last looked at Wiki about 4yrs ago so I forgot and same on Epstein files... Clinton's name removed, Trump's prominently displayed.
I looked up Kamala Harris on Wikipedia in around 2019. They said she was born in CA to two non citizens and at age 7 her parents got divorced and she moved with her Mother to Quebec, Canada. She lived in Canada, went to school in Canada, including high school, but then attended college in the US.
I called her an anchor baby from then on. Nobody EVER asked her, did you learn American history, the constitution or the Bill of Rights in Canadian schools? No one ever asked her about growing up in Canada with her Indian Mom.
🤯🤯🤯 I had no idea. So she legit can't be running for president if you go by the Founders' take on citizenship. Unfortunately we're going by this disastrous SCOTUS. ACB is a joke and is the Chief Justice. Darren Beatie of Revolver tried to warn everyone about ACB but no one would listen. He was championing a female district court judge from AZ.
Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia's founders, has completely disassociated himself from it. He has quite a lot to say about how the current establishment maintains the editorial bias.
Interesting... I'll look him up. Wiki is an absolute train wreck and I love it when they beg for money. We all know leftists are cheap so the people running it and editing it won't donate. The DNC had to apply for a cash loan and they put their building up as collateral for it.
A lot of lefties think everything should be free. Sux for Wikipedia.
Yaaa it was hilarious to hear that the DNC mortgaged itself for cash. Showing the financial acumen that they use to prevent the government from running on a budget.
I was quite shocked to experience this from friends of mine for years whom I knew were Liberals but I did not realize how they really don't know anything about the problems from COVID. I spoke to these 2 women about women losing their babies in pregnancy after getting Covid, the sharp increase of young people dying in sports, etc after vaccination and they didn't believe me!
I believe America should be more concerned about the Islamic infiltration into its land and takeover of city governments than worry about Israeli infiltration.
Israelis are not blowing themselves up in groups of innocents. Nor are they driving cars into crowds of innocents. Nor are they randomly launching rockets and drones on oil tankers or other countries in their region. Please.
It is amazing how liberals don't want to know anything, if it does not agree with what they already know. They have no desire to even look at information. They have no ability to think. I think they have been brain damaged by the vaccines they promoted. I have had to disconnect with family and friends who were in the liberal category,
I've noticed that, too. There are too many people who don't seek out other opinions, who don't think it's important to question the narrative, who--dare I say it?--trust government. I grew up with the aphorism "Question Authority" and trusting government or "experts" was never in the cards.
Most of what is branded "news" in 2026 is actually propaganda. We have been living in a propaganda campaign for a long time now, and it's getting increasingly blatant. I prefer the term propaganda instead of info-war or psy-op because even today, people do know the term, and most people dislike the sense that they are being manipulated or lied to. As for Ground News, I liked it initially, but I've observed the increasing bias. Your post helps me understand what they are up to.
The thing about the word "propaganda" is that most people think it means lies. It doesn't. It means presenting a particular point of view. Even the truth is propaganda. Think about it. Propaganda comes from the Latin root"to propagate or spread". It does not have to mean lies, though more and more it's been colored that way.
"The secondary reporting gradually displaced the primary historical record."
As a retired English teacher/Librarian, these thoughts about what we and the public hear and read each day also plague my mind. We see the results in the direction our country is headed.
It seems like an avalanche that we can't avoid, but must.
Lying has always been my main bugaboo...lie to me once and I never will believe you again. Perhaps that attitude was planted by the fact that as a kid even suspected lying would get my butt tanned faster than just about anything else. Have found that a healthy attitude in my scientific career, in fact considered it an imperative and thus have wondered at importing into our scientific community folks from cultures where lying is considered much less consequential. At least there should be greater effort to impose truthfulness in our scientific training than we see evidence of today.
Good point! I often reflect on how many of our Doctors, Corporate CEOs, leaders and policy makers politicians and more come to us from foreign beginnings (and with such cultural leanings?)
The environmentalists love to say, the "science is settled" concerning earth warming. No scientist would ever say that, science is always being questioned and researched. That is why Fauci is a fraud. He closed off debate. He found his narrative and pushed the vaccine like he had a financial stake in it.
Micheal, When I read your comment I thought, once again, of Woody Allen's movie with Martin Landau "Crimes and Misdemeanors". Lying has become an art. I was good at it as a kid to save myself from my wicked stepmother. My husband does it constantly to protect his ego, but still doesn't see the connection. Rationalization= rational lies.
It still holds true: GIGO As it pertains to algorithms, it’s Bias in, Bias out. From the programmer, to the choice & hierarchical arrangement of sources (and those omitted), the if-then choice options, etc., time periods and location included or omitted, the answer may heavily weight factors other than fact & reality.
One source that I find to be pretty reliable is justfacts.com . They were especially good on covid stuff--masking, protective gear, and the like. They choose their own topics and work in depth; so, they are not as broad as I might wish.
-I like justthenews.com because they have a 'dig deeper' tab that often cites source documents. I HATE when the source is obscured or not included at all.
-Original reporting at the local level has been killed by the interwebs because nobody (self included) supports local papers that used to do the actual reporting. Hopefully Nick Shirley can show them how it's done. Even then, I have witnessed first hand how local reporting has an agenda, and where I live (NY state) it's the left's agenda.
Thank you for the write up. I am always looking for alternative news sources that provide balanced fact checked information. Soooo for now, I will keep doing what I do (try to look at various sources myself) until I can find that trustworthy source.
That said, I LOVED your earlier write up of AlterSystemsAI. I have become a subscriber and while it still makes a few mistakes here and there, it seems much more balanced in the information it provides (and can reference). My engineering husband loves it so much he got his own subscription.
The amount of time you invest in this kind of substantial, in-depth investigation is astonishing. Along with everything else you both do, the standing question is always, How do you find the time? Thank you for covering so many vital topics.
Hoping for an honest news aggregator is a futile endeavor. Looking for labels such as "factual" is also unrealistic. We all must develop our inner filter to employ when reading any news source. This filter is strengthened by factors only honed by practice. I trust certain news sites more than others, and certain journalists or writers more than others. No matter how much I believe an article is trustworthy, I still read it (or view the video) with a healthy skepticism. A source who lies or betrays my trust may be accessed again, but the filter knows now they may be lying. I refer to many news sites, substacks and writers and feel I get a pretty good comprehension of the news; and don't bother trying to balance with leftist garbage. I skim or ignore celebrity news, radical antics and other clickbait in favor of spending time following real news, some of which is on the back pages. I send my gleanings of the best each day to my Political List and have been doing this for 20 years. The Doctors Malone are at the top in the trustworthy category! Blessings.
I dumped them years ago when I realized they were outsourcing their so-called “factuality“ to a third-party organization. That invalidated the whole premise that they were presenting news without any bias.
I have found Ground News to be of limited usefulness. In most cases, I have already seen the headlines (I have long used Protopage to aggregate headlines from my own choice of sources). It is obvious from the poll results that most Ground News readers are Leftists, and I assume their editorial choices are made accordingly. The only thing I find really interesting is the "split coverage," where they compare headlines on the same story from different sources.
Wikipedia is a haven for bias and mis information and excludes research that challenges the status quo! My local newspaper regurgitates, whatever Reuters, AP, Washington Post, or New York Times publishes that is left leaning.
Never hire a reporter who has a university journalism degree. At one time, probably before World War II, they didn’t usually have a degree from college. Needless to say the common college graduates have been shifted to the left.
I studied Journalism in college for a semester, before i changed to Creative writing. i did learn Who, Where, Why, When, and What?. Today, when i read what many journalists write...they don't cover all the facts pertaining to what they are writing.
I’ve noticed that, they often don’t cover all of the five elements.
They are not objective...Could you spell out the five elements?
Who what when where why
I am tired..its been a long day. I have been up, before 5AM.. Thanks for spelling it out.
When I was growing up (right after WW II, most of the reporters were writers who wanted to investigate and report on what was going on locally and worldwide. They actually tried to report rather than make judgments. Not that there weren't obvious instances of yellow journalism, but it seems like opinion rather than reporting took over sometimes during or after the 1970's.
I too grew up after World War II and I get the same impression.
Here is an example of when I query Dr Robert Malone on Google (which absolutely needs to be broken up by the federal government for monopolizing the industry). I own an Android which is owned by the Alphabet Company. When I attempt to use a different search engine, my phone starts doing weird things.
This is the first thing displayed via Wikipedia:
Robert Wallace Malone (born October 20, 1959)[1][2] is an American physician and biochemist. His early work focused on mRNA technology,[3] pharmaceuticals, and drug repurposing research. He is credited for the first successful transfection of designed mRNA packaged within a liposomal nanoparticle.[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Malone promoted misinformation about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.[1][5][6][7][8].
You have to keep scrolling to get less propaganda.
Interestingly enough, GK Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc predicted after WW2 that the threat that would take over would be a cabal of globalists controlling the "official narrative" and that that narrative was already being pushed by the NYT. So in essence their premise was Nazism was defeated but in the next 100yrs this will be the predominant threat.
Wikipedia is a haven for bias and MIs information
Never trust them for anything even remotely political. I find wiki convenient to look up a city or state or country, or well-known people's age, spouse(s), children, etc. Maybe the basics of their biography.
FACTS.
Of course they are! I can't stand Wiki and I laugh every time they ask me for money but my point is that the Google algorithm picks that first to display in the query. I believe I was forced to use Microsoft Explorer for my Master's class in 2025 and since it is owned by Gates, that query for Dr Malone was patently false the first 8 to 10 stories. The third article that came up was "Discredited Doctor Robert Malone falsely claims to have invented the mRNA technology."
Use DUCK DUCK GO.
Oh I've tried. I love Duck Duck Go. That's one of my favorites but I unknowingly set myself up for this because the phone is a Google Pixel. So dumb things happen like X won't open on that browser or I can't auto login to my 350 accounts etc.
Jean mentioned she had a Samsung and doesn't have these issues. I think it's time to drop the Pixel.
Mark37.com Ghost Phone (no other website--mark37.com is the only valid one) is a Pixel that is degoogled, a privacy phone with Graphene OS than Google's OS. You can change your current Pixel to Graphene OS without switching phones; just switch operating systems and go private.
Wow wow wow!!! Thank you Joy!
I will say their phones last longer than others. I have had this one for 4 years.
I noticed Wikipedia's biases many years ago when I was curious enough to look up homeopathy. And then I thought I'd correct some of the garbage that was on there, only to find that this platform, that had started out as public edited, had certain categories that were locked to the public. Curious, I looked up other "controversial" (i.e. not mainstream) topics, and it was true of every one of them, whereas something that was strictly informational (such as geographical information) could easily be edited.
I too have Android (Samsung). I've never used Google. At this point I'm relying on my browsers (Brave) search. It seems to come up with acceptable options.
Yep, I like Brave too. Been using it for several years already.
What is surprising to me is how few people seem to know about it.
I'm using Brave on a laptop though, as I don't and won't own a smart phone from either Apple or especially Google. My old flip phone is a phone in the true sense of the word, it has no internet connection turned on.
If I were to get a smart phone it would run a Graphine O/S.
Oh wow. That's interesting. I'm a dummy. I have a Google Pixel; therein lies the difference I believe with trying to use other browsers.
Wikipedia is pretty much worthless as far as trying to find any truth there, and has been for a few years. I quit them as soon as they instantly removed Clinton's name from anything Epstein a few years ago....
Plus literally anybody can (or could then) edit a listing.
Wikipedia editors operate little fiefdoms where if you're not in the in crowd, you can't edit.
I figured they had to stop it somehow. I edited a couple myself back then just to see if it could be done - and put Clinton's name back in everywhere. LOL
Uh oh! You might become a statistic Sheila Be careful! 😂
I agree but why is it leftists always get in there and alter the information? They have a term for those people that can edit. I last looked at Wiki about 4yrs ago so I forgot and same on Epstein files... Clinton's name removed, Trump's prominently displayed.
I looked up Kamala Harris on Wikipedia in around 2019. They said she was born in CA to two non citizens and at age 7 her parents got divorced and she moved with her Mother to Quebec, Canada. She lived in Canada, went to school in Canada, including high school, but then attended college in the US.
I called her an anchor baby from then on. Nobody EVER asked her, did you learn American history, the constitution or the Bill of Rights in Canadian schools? No one ever asked her about growing up in Canada with her Indian Mom.
🤯🤯🤯 I had no idea. So she legit can't be running for president if you go by the Founders' take on citizenship. Unfortunately we're going by this disastrous SCOTUS. ACB is a joke and is the Chief Justice. Darren Beatie of Revolver tried to warn everyone about ACB but no one would listen. He was championing a female district court judge from AZ.
Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia's founders, has completely disassociated himself from it. He has quite a lot to say about how the current establishment maintains the editorial bias.
Interesting... I'll look him up. Wiki is an absolute train wreck and I love it when they beg for money. We all know leftists are cheap so the people running it and editing it won't donate. The DNC had to apply for a cash loan and they put their building up as collateral for it.
A lot of lefties think everything should be free. Sux for Wikipedia.
Yaaa it was hilarious to hear that the DNC mortgaged itself for cash. Showing the financial acumen that they use to prevent the government from running on a budget.
😂😂😂
I was quite shocked to experience this from friends of mine for years whom I knew were Liberals but I did not realize how they really don't know anything about the problems from COVID. I spoke to these 2 women about women losing their babies in pregnancy after getting Covid, the sharp increase of young people dying in sports, etc after vaccination and they didn't believe me!
Women losing their babies in pregnancy. "Sacrifice: How the Deadliest Vaccine In History Targeted The Most Vulnerable" James Thorp, MD OB/Gyn
Increase of young people dying in sports after vaccination: "Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022" Edward Dowd
It all relates to where we get our news. Not knowing seems to indicate they get theirs from MSM , which some might consider an arm of the government.
The Israeli government?
In my opinion, No.
I believe America should be more concerned about the Islamic infiltration into its land and takeover of city governments than worry about Israeli infiltration.
https://rairfoundation.com/
Israelis are not blowing themselves up in groups of innocents. Nor are they driving cars into crowds of innocents. Nor are they randomly launching rockets and drones on oil tankers or other countries in their region. Please.
But they are running the MSM news.
It is amazing how liberals don't want to know anything, if it does not agree with what they already know. They have no desire to even look at information. They have no ability to think. I think they have been brain damaged by the vaccines they promoted. I have had to disconnect with family and friends who were in the liberal category,
I've noticed that, too. There are too many people who don't seek out other opinions, who don't think it's important to question the narrative, who--dare I say it?--trust government. I grew up with the aphorism "Question Authority" and trusting government or "experts" was never in the cards.
Most of what is branded "news" in 2026 is actually propaganda. We have been living in a propaganda campaign for a long time now, and it's getting increasingly blatant. I prefer the term propaganda instead of info-war or psy-op because even today, people do know the term, and most people dislike the sense that they are being manipulated or lied to. As for Ground News, I liked it initially, but I've observed the increasing bias. Your post helps me understand what they are up to.
The thing about the word "propaganda" is that most people think it means lies. It doesn't. It means presenting a particular point of view. Even the truth is propaganda. Think about it. Propaganda comes from the Latin root"to propagate or spread". It does not have to mean lies, though more and more it's been colored that way.
What an excellent article.
"The secondary reporting gradually displaced the primary historical record."
As a retired English teacher/Librarian, these thoughts about what we and the public hear and read each day also plague my mind. We see the results in the direction our country is headed.
It seems like an avalanche that we can't avoid, but must.
Lying has always been my main bugaboo...lie to me once and I never will believe you again. Perhaps that attitude was planted by the fact that as a kid even suspected lying would get my butt tanned faster than just about anything else. Have found that a healthy attitude in my scientific career, in fact considered it an imperative and thus have wondered at importing into our scientific community folks from cultures where lying is considered much less consequential. At least there should be greater effort to impose truthfulness in our scientific training than we see evidence of today.
Good point! I often reflect on how many of our Doctors, Corporate CEOs, leaders and policy makers politicians and more come to us from foreign beginnings (and with such cultural leanings?)
The environmentalists love to say, the "science is settled" concerning earth warming. No scientist would ever say that, science is always being questioned and researched. That is why Fauci is a fraud. He closed off debate. He found his narrative and pushed the vaccine like he had a financial stake in it.
Fauci was no scientist. And his work history would argue he was no physician. He was a phony through and through.
Micheal, When I read your comment I thought, once again, of Woody Allen's movie with Martin Landau "Crimes and Misdemeanors". Lying has become an art. I was good at it as a kid to save myself from my wicked stepmother. My husband does it constantly to protect his ego, but still doesn't see the connection. Rationalization= rational lies.
Gallo was the opposite!
It still holds true: GIGO As it pertains to algorithms, it’s Bias in, Bias out. From the programmer, to the choice & hierarchical arrangement of sources (and those omitted), the if-then choice options, etc., time periods and location included or omitted, the answer may heavily weight factors other than fact & reality.
One source that I find to be pretty reliable is justfacts.com . They were especially good on covid stuff--masking, protective gear, and the like. They choose their own topics and work in depth; so, they are not as broad as I might wish.
Had not heard of them before. Thank you
Probably just as broad as they dare.
I think it is a matter of resources--extensive study is expensive.
-I like justthenews.com because they have a 'dig deeper' tab that often cites source documents. I HATE when the source is obscured or not included at all.
-Original reporting at the local level has been killed by the interwebs because nobody (self included) supports local papers that used to do the actual reporting. Hopefully Nick Shirley can show them how it's done. Even then, I have witnessed first hand how local reporting has an agenda, and where I live (NY state) it's the left's agenda.
Thank you for the write up. I am always looking for alternative news sources that provide balanced fact checked information. Soooo for now, I will keep doing what I do (try to look at various sources myself) until I can find that trustworthy source.
That said, I LOVED your earlier write up of AlterSystemsAI. I have become a subscriber and while it still makes a few mistakes here and there, it seems much more balanced in the information it provides (and can reference). My engineering husband loves it so much he got his own subscription.
Epoch times?
Better than the NYT is about the best I can say. They're inconsistent.
A well-reasoned, very detailed article that basically reminds me to never trust anyone or anything that pretends to be any kind of "fact checker."
The amount of time you invest in this kind of substantial, in-depth investigation is astonishing. Along with everything else you both do, the standing question is always, How do you find the time? Thank you for covering so many vital topics.
Hoping for an honest news aggregator is a futile endeavor. Looking for labels such as "factual" is also unrealistic. We all must develop our inner filter to employ when reading any news source. This filter is strengthened by factors only honed by practice. I trust certain news sites more than others, and certain journalists or writers more than others. No matter how much I believe an article is trustworthy, I still read it (or view the video) with a healthy skepticism. A source who lies or betrays my trust may be accessed again, but the filter knows now they may be lying. I refer to many news sites, substacks and writers and feel I get a pretty good comprehension of the news; and don't bother trying to balance with leftist garbage. I skim or ignore celebrity news, radical antics and other clickbait in favor of spending time following real news, some of which is on the back pages. I send my gleanings of the best each day to my Political List and have been doing this for 20 years. The Doctors Malone are at the top in the trustworthy category! Blessings.
I dumped them years ago when I realized they were outsourcing their so-called “factuality“ to a third-party organization. That invalidated the whole premise that they were presenting news without any bias.
I have found Ground News to be of limited usefulness. In most cases, I have already seen the headlines (I have long used Protopage to aggregate headlines from my own choice of sources). It is obvious from the poll results that most Ground News readers are Leftists, and I assume their editorial choices are made accordingly. The only thing I find really interesting is the "split coverage," where they compare headlines on the same story from different sources.
Wikipedia is a haven for bias and mis information and excludes research that challenges the status quo! My local newspaper regurgitates, whatever Reuters, AP, Washington Post, or New York Times publishes that is left leaning.