> Now suppose FOX says that police have apprehended a suspect, a Saudi immigrant named Abdullah Abdul. They show footage from a press conference where the polic

> Now suppose FOX says that police have apprehended a suspect, a Saudi immigrant named Abdullah Abdul. They show footage from a press conference where the police are talking about this. Do you believe them? [..] It doesn't matter at all that FOX is biased. Can't really disagree with the overall point of the article. But it should be emphasized that in a country of 331 million people (and a world with a few more), biased selection of which anecdotal events to report is as good as lying. Once you see enough incidents which some set of FOX/CNN/WSJ/NYT/etc ignore, and others that they shower with national attention, it becomes perfectly rational to believe an individual story, yet still dismiss it as a lie.