pineknollshoresking said:
What really turned me to think that the media and politicians are quite ok about lying if they don't approve of someone was the senate hearings for Trump's appointees 4 years ago. I would be listening to CSPAN during the live coverage of one of the hearings and then happened to hear a politician discussing the same part of the hearing i was listening to on MSNBC later that night. Both the democrat politician and the media personality were raising hell about what was said during the meeting. There was a clip played of the hearing and i listened to it, and I definitely didn't remember it as the clip was played..
I went back and read the transcript and the clip had definitely been altered. It happened to be Jeff Sessions.
Since then I have made it a point to actually go to the source of the material instead of just clips that the media like to play to make someone look bad (or good depending on who it is)
Unfortunately it always seems to skew one way from the media side, and that it typically who most people get their information from.