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What is important as consumers of news is not the bias in the media as much as our understanding their bias. That understanding allows us to not get stuck in an echo chamber where we are suffering from confirmation bias, consuming news that just reinforces our opinions instead of challenging them.

I thought about this chicken or egg effect. Then I realized that this all preceded Trump. The echo chamber environment of New York City based journalism was just as evident in Nixon's time as Trump's. That was really the point of my post. I don't think this effect is one where one person or...

I can remember in November, 2016 the tone in the major media decision centers. They started the evening practically declaring a Clinton win. I remember one political analyst saying that the only way for Trump to win was for a long series of dominos to fall just the right way. As each domino...

I think there comes a point in our current media circus where you can be pro-life or a candidate; but you can't be both and expect to be elected. Trump has now put the baby to bed and can avoid some of the more vicious attacks from the left. It is enjoyable to see how mad he has made the media...

The View, like a lot of mainstream media has become a mouthpiece for the DNC. Barbara Walters started this program to create a place where women could discuss differing points of view, hence the title. Now, if your point of view is different from the majority of the panel, you get the ad...

The offshoot of this is that they church shop to find that pastor that feeds them their gourmet meal of reheated opinion.

Are you going to the National Eucharistic Congresss?

I debated putting this in American Politics; but decided to put it here to maybe clarify and unify the Catholics here around what words mean and how those meanings should elucidate and not obfuscate our thinking.

No detail too small, right?

I must admit that while I had a good idea of what the word sex referred to, I was not so sure about how gender played into that. So I would like to start with the bare definitions: Sex - "either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are...

To me, i think it was a matter of present need and present knowledge with the present being the lifespan of Mary. The present need at that time was to evangelize, baptize, and teach of the Risen Lord and what he had taught them. It was a matter of survival in a world of competing religions to...

I think John often uses people as symbols of groups. As far as the woman in Revelations 12, we can see the hopes of the 12 Hebrew tribes as being incarnated through one Jewish woman into a man. As is often the case, the verse has a literal meaning (Mary), an allegorical meaning (12 tribes)...

I actually agree with most of what you said here. Even the most avid supporters of Trump have to acknowledge that his behavior is often childish; but I don't think self-promotion or childishness actually prove heartlessness. I also agree that Trump often does counter-programming, which is to...

I was not making the comparison, the media was. I was just pointing out the absurdity of the comparison, which you seem to share; but of course you have to bring everything said about Donald Trump back to an anti-Trump rant. I am actually glad you brought up the fraud case. To me it smacks of...

You know when you say things like "it is established that Donald is a law breaker and an agent of chaos, not order" it comes across as pure ad hominem and devoid of any engagement with the post contents itself. What law was Trump breaking when he attended this funeral? What chaos was he...

My mind boggles at the illogic of our media at times. They thumped Trump for going as a purely political stunt, while salivating at the troves of cash Biden brought in that same day. Trump going to this funeral could only be seen as purely political in opposition to what Biden was doing that...

I have found it interesting that in reading the Wisdom of Solomon, I could see this same striving to speak about Jewish theology within a Greek philosophical context.

I actually thought it was both courageous and compassionate of her to go. If you agree with me on that but don't see a similar compassion on Trump's part, then I think you may be viewing this through the tainted lens of our modern media. Both of these people have very busy agendas now and it...

I read Bill Barr's book "One Damn Thing After Another" last year and in it he discussed his first term as Attorney General under George H.W. Bush. The late 80's, early 90's were another time of high crime. The solution implemented at that time was to set up a FBI Task Force to analyze the...

There is an old joke about a man that had a conversation with God that went like this, Man, "God what is 10000 years to you." God, "It is like a minute." Man, "God what is a million dollars to you." God, "It is like a penny." Man, "God will you give me a penny." God, "Sure, in a minute." On a...