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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3169572, member: 71723"]Yes, Christian!! I spent FAR too many months of my life at the epicenter of a national news story. (I was the Director of a county gov't department of the very first county in the USA to be court-mandated to do something that until then ONLY counties specifically ENUMERATED in a Federal statute had to do.) I discovered that media "error" has many sub-categories. At the most basic is factual error - the "whats" are themselves factually wrong. The media was wrong in my story at even this basic level. The next level is the error of "what does it take to fix it" reporting. This is often reported incorrectly in the belief that the public either doesn't care about the fine details or they take too long to explain. ALL public sector stories have THIS error. The "why this is important to you" error. This is something that starts to involve what is called "a narrative" - a neat packaged STORY theory that usually has NOTHING to do with the original story. And then there is the worst - "This is why this is an outrage!". If you've been keeping score, this is the  heart of media political bias. We get from a little county doing what nearly EVERY podunk county in the country does - complying with state law - to "This is an OUTRAGE!" in four easy steps.[/QUOTE]