Sorry - above from this morning's Irish Times - a neutral real news paper printing real news in real paper-shops

Call me a cynic, but I ain't never read a newspaper that didn't have an agenda. They would call it being objective, but in the jargon of the day it is branding. Or as I would have it: pandering to their audience - see below.

As one noted skeptic once described confirmation bias/motivated reasoning in plainer English: "People do not scrutinise, that which they are glad to hear".

Anyone who disagrees .................... invent your own reasoning, you will anyway.