" In the old days, there were only so many things people had to understand" Most of them were illiterate, had very little access to any real news. The very co

" In the old days, there were only so many things people had to understand" Most of them were illiterate, had very little access to any real news. The very concept of 'unbiased' news is a modern American phenom. Of course all news is still biased, but they try/pretend not to be. In the 'old days', newspapers were propaganda tools of the owners and their political peers - if you wanted to get elected to 'Senate' or whatever, the best thing to do would be to 'buy a newspaper' - which many of them did. Have a look at 'old timey' news - it's really almost funny - it's all mockery and slander. That said - it had a lot of wit! At least some of it was smart :). But yes - the world is very complicated today - I agree with that sentiment.