> We have the tools to find the truth, at least for many parts of our government. If you go look at CSPAN programming which allows the public to comment, or wat

> We have the tools to find the truth, at least for many parts of our government. If you go look at CSPAN programming which allows the public to comment, or watch "debates", you'll notice a lot of empty chambers and very old people with nothing better to do being the only participants. > This is why we turn to partisan news. Shame on us. You're omitting an important point to be a scold: "finding the truth" by combing through raw CSPAN feeds and primary documents takes such an extreme amount of time and effort, that literally no one has the ability to do it. Think you can? Watch a TV like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwPFQXQHNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwPFQXQHNk, except with 1000 channels instead of six, all playing programs you have to closely attend to. The "very old people with nothing better to do" are some of the only ones with the time to even dabble, and even they fail. The best you can do is figure out a tiny, tiny little part, and most people don't even have the time for even that. So people divide up the work and rely on proxies, and others realize that exploiting those proxies can bring power. It's an impossible problem. Shame on no none.