YAHOO News.......a day in the life of a lie

Years ago, when Clinton won his first term in the White House, I was an AOL user….dial up modem, the full nine yards, screaming along at about one baud per day.  Social media was in its’ infant stages and your average person had no idea about what the internet would be able to deliver in content.  Like most people I got the news from written, television and radio media.  I think Matt Drudge changed all of that when he developed the Drudge Report during the Lewinsky scandal.  And it was with the Drudge Report, then talk radio that was an actual alternative to NPR (which IS your tax dollar at work and was pervasive AND invasive at the time.  I was in western Kansas enroute to Colorado once and could only pick up local farm radio at 0300….but I could find an NPR station with NO problem), and FOXNews that was a true counter part and briefly a competitor before leaving MSNBC and CNN in the rear view mirror, and I started realizing that……our news is lying to us DAILY.  And it has not gotten any better.

And let me come clean on something; in my church we speak of lies and sins of commission as well as omission.  When it comes to the mainstream media, the traditional broadcast and print sources there is the obvious lies of commission (CNN seems to take special pride in that), and of omission (not telling all of the details needed to be well informed) and we can add to that lies of misleading (sorry….couldn’t find a rhyme for ‘-mission’).  I characterize lies of misleading simply as framing a news story, presenting it in such a way that supports a narrative.  If that narrative is Trump impeachment, Trump getting a draft deferment, the evil NRA….you name it; the media will cherry pick the stories, frame the stories in such a way that a low information consumer will not question or think past the story.  For example, Trump got deferments from the draft to not serve in Vietnam.  The deferments were legal, he was in school, and yes, his father did have pull.  The stories never mention that Bill Clinton avoided the draft because he was afraid that military service would damage his viability for high office in the nation he envisioned.  The stories say nothing of another liberal, Jimmy Carter, pardoning all the draft dodgers from Vietnam.  And……there is no mention of Congressman Blumenthal, a democrat, that just flat out lied about his own military service.  None of the factual parallels serve the narrative, are therefore left out, in an effort to mislead you.
Now, back to AOL.  I eventually left AOL for reasons known only to the arresting officer and sealed court records, and migrated to the other heavy hitter at the time, YAHOO.  Unlike AOL, YAHOO was free.
And trust me, you get, I get what you pay for.
Below is a sample of the stories on the YAHOO home page, the “Yahoo News”.  Notice that they are all anti-Trump, anti-Conservative and every one of them from a leftist, anti-American, biased source.

(AP)  Trump Org. donates foreign profits but won't say how much

(HUFFPO) Florida Survivors Defend Sheriff Against Republican Calls To Oust Him

(The Independent) Russia investigation: Rick Gates' testimony could be 'the end' of the Trump Presidency, says Watergate lawyer

(CNN) CNN poll: Democratic advantages grow ahead of 2018 midterms
(Yahoo)  Popovich rips Fox News host's 'arrogance' in telling LeBron to 'shut up and dribble'

(HUFFPO) Trump, Who Cited Bone Spurs To Avoid Military Service, Claims He Would Have Fought Off Parkland Shooter Without A Weapon

(Yahoo)  Howard Dean: I Think Devin Nunes is Going to Jail Eventually
(HUFFPO)  Maxine Waters says it's time for impeachment

(VOX)  How the Republican tax law hurts the poor and helps the rich, in one chart

(WAPO)  Shocker: Democrats’ predictions about the GOP tax cut are coming true

(YAHOO)  Jennifer Lawrence on the danger of talking Trump: 'I need more than 25 percent of America to go see my movies' (And lately….she DOES need more than 25% of ANYONE to see her movies).

(The Charlotte Observer…..always a reliable leftist rag) The Second Amendment means what it says – not what the NRA says its means (and the Charlotte Observer should keep that in mind).

(ABC) Far-right terror threat 'more significant' than public realizes, British police official warns (not multi-culturally invited Islamic Terrorism….but those pesky conservatives).

(HuffPost) BLM's Alicia Garza Launches Census Project To Mobilize Black Political Power

(HUFFPO) https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-most-voters-think-nra-214344576.html (“most” Americans think NRA bad for America).

(HUFFPO) https://www.yahoo.com/news/university-faculty-votes-revoke-donald-114200014.html (revoking Trumps honorary doctorate)
(Newsweek) https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-impeachment-removal-conviction-college-210412047.html

(The National Interest…..whose I do not know)  https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/d18e3e1f-5d15-3e43-a870-614fb1faebb2/ss_how-the-u.s.-assassinated-the.html (A story on how the US “Assassinated” Admiral Yamamoto in WWII…..comparing it to a targeted assassination today….sort of your daily dose of revisionist history).

Now, for all I know, YAHOO might own or be owned by the Huffington Post, or this marketing is THE worst case of media nepotism I have seen.  But my point is….if you want only ONE side of the “news”, if you want a side that supports your leftist views…..YAHOO is for you.  I would say that they might not realize their bias, but in this day and age that is simply not possible.  All of the MSM recognizes their socialist bent, the difference lies in which ones will be honest in their lies.

I think Yahoo would be honest that they are lying….but I doubt that they would call what they publish lies.