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When I was growing up, we had several daily papers in my house, a local weekly paper and my dad's union paper.
The reason we had so many was that he was a railroader. People would leave the papers all over the train and the station. He would bring home a Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Chicago's American and a Sun-times every day. The most fun would be when he would bring home a paper from someplace like New York, D.C., or San Francisco. I started reading the Daily News the most, because of its narrative style. It read like an unfolding drama. I read the Sun-Times next to the most after that, because of the convenient size.
I was young when I started doing that, but I could tell the difference in types of coverage, stories picked and slant. Also, my dad yelled a lot about the repuke bias in the Tribune.
These days, people do not understand the difference between propaganda and reporting. Some of it is education, some of it is deliberate on the part of the corporate media.
As they were growing up, I taught my kids to see point of view and bias in broadcast and print journalism. I hope everyone here is trying to do that.
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