(quote) "I decline to believe that the "proof" of ANYTHING can be found within the pages of ANY newspaper....." and so on.

I wish it were as simple as that other fantasy of just destroying one's T.V. It really is as case of deduction cross-referencing between various "non-fiction" sources to get at what's really gong on . Newspapers can manufacture *motives* and idenitfy the *players*, but selective half-truths means you've got to find thew other puzzle pieces the other won't mention elsewhere. That's why I have been a staunch "independnet" for 20 years. Newspapers do as much *pandrering* to the "designer slant" of news as their target readers *want* to pay to read , but half-turths still contain salvagable nuggets worth refining.