>if your primary goal is to sway public opinion instead of informing people on the truth. That could cut out a lot. So much of journalism sits in a grey area i

>if your primary goal is to sway public opinion instead of informing people on the truth. That could cut out a lot. So much of journalism sits in a grey area in the middle of that. edit - With my cynical hat on, the mainstream press, a. shifts product, b. sways opinion and c. tells stories that it thinks people are interested in to help a. and b. The press has found over time that most of the new stories people are interested in are in some regard varying degrees of true, or at least based on the fact something may have happened, so it publishes those. Actually publishing truth is something it essentially does entirely by accident, almost in the same way as Hollywood occaisionaly produces art.