News as a purveyor of 'information without spin' went south years ago. It has become an aspect of entertainment and persuasion, imo. Now we have the rich and famous helping to guide public perception. Pity that the population has been dumbed down sufficiently so that nearly half of the citizenry thinks creation science is a valuable contribution to the lexicon of human knowledge and that subjects like creationism and a universe that is only 10,000 years old are worthy of debate. Don't make sense to me. But people tend to defend what they are taught to defend. That part's easy. The difficult aspect of it is the explanation.

One of my daughters at a fairly young age wandered by a Sunday morning "we will pray for you but send the donations or dazilted subsackous ill will befall you and screw your karma" religious show on TV. Even at the tender age of five she recognized BS when she heard it. Her remark as she passed the screen was, "Yeah, right!"