Being the most watched cable or internet “news” is not something to brag about. Just because something has the most views does not mean it is the most credible, factual, or even real. It just means it’s the most viewed, in other words, the most entertaining.

Go ahead and tell me what you see are the most viewed youtube videos. Memes? Nude women? Cinnamon challenges? Despacito 2? I don’t know about you, but I would not be proud of watching the “news” equivalents of these attractions that gather the most eye balls.

Do yourself a favor and enroll in journalism 101 or critical thinking at your local community college or adult school.

You at least acknowledge the fact that there are going to be times when a newspaper will have a conflicting interest to publish a story because it disparages an advertiser they depend on. I applaud you for that. Now just extrapolate that line of thinking to the macro level. You are your own individual person. YOUR interest is NOT 100% the same as your wife or children’s. To put it simply, EVERYONE is biased. You are biased. I am biased. ALL Newspapers are biased.

Now consider a hypothetical ValleyVoice story about a local man who claims extraterrestrial space ships are invading the Earth and they are carrying terrorists inside of them. The local man happens to be a republican representative. You nor I have the resources to investigate the man’s credentials or verify his claims are true. This is what newspapers do. Newspapers are doing the most basic fact checking calling experts and witnesses to make sure the local man’s claims are true or not.

The most irresponsible thing a newspaper could do is to publish claims made by politicians that are not true. The newspaper would be misinforming their readers and playing with fire like our friends Breitbart and Fox News have taken the mantle to do. Of course there is a school of thought in journalism to simply parrot a politician’s words without any context or fact checking, but ValleyVoice is luckily not one of them.

The next time you find so many different newspapers as biased, you should consider the possibility that the politician they are reporting about is not telling the truth her/himself. When Devin Nunez is making public statements that 2+2=3, newspapers are rightly going to state his claim as false. Politicians DO NOT have any legal obligation to tell you the truth. They are sales people and you are an unfortunate victim of their pyramid scheme.