This "almost all journalism is trash" is just naively cynical. I bet what you call "deliberate manipulation" I would describe as "telling a story." There is o

This "almost all journalism is trash" is just naively cynical. I bet what you call "deliberate manipulation" I would describe as "telling a story." There is often no such thing as "the truth"; two people who saw the same thing happen will often interpret and describe it very differently. It's unavoidable, and if you see the world in black and white you're blind to most of the details.