My late father, who was an agnostic humanist and very well educated in mechanical engineering at the University of Texas – Austin, used to sometimes say to me when there was a controversial narrative being told, or seen on television, heard over FM radio, or inside the theater on the silver screen, that you can’t always believe what you see or hear. His quote that always stayed with me was “Son, there are always three sides to every story, sometimes more than three.” And I have found in today’s 21^st-century hyper-overloaded American tech-media-information market, Dad’s news mantra is never more true than right now. It can be argued that it began in 2000 and has easily grown 6-fold since then.

Did you know as of May 2021 that within the U.S. out of one hundred seventy-four (174) news companies/outlets only forty-seven (47) are non-profit organizations according to Harvard University. In other words, only 27% of all U.S. news media are typically more unbiased than private For Profit news corporations that must heed to private owners’ and/or shareholders’ and a board of directors’ special interests for profits, i.e. biased. And of those 47 non-profit news organizations many of them are under the umbrella of a parent company, such as Frontline PBS under the former CPB. What does all this mean for news consumers, rural and urban viewers inside the United States?

It means most all or a very large majority of our U.S. news is driven by individual owners and boards of directors’ personal interests and/or biases. To be more candid, most all of our news we Americans consume is slanted to some degree, if not to a large degree, and the integrity of our “journalism” is often tainted, polluted, or worse, distorted. How do we avoid the modern traps of (extreme?) biasness? How can we find a more neutral source of news and information?

There are two answers: 1) consume a more varied diverse spread of news agencies, media, and outlets, then compare and contrast all of it to unravel the more objective version of a story. Yes, this is an immensely time-consuming method and every day life gets in the way of such deciphering. But the more diverse the input/output, the better. Or 2) pare down your consumption of news to only the non-profit outlets and digital media platforms. Why is number two (2) a more attractive option? Below are sixty (60) reasons why and the “donations” to a political candidate or campaign by GOP-dollars versus Democratic-dollars:

Media Owners/Execs Who Openly Donate

There is where all the biasness saturates our privately owned or publicly traded American news media. And this is why “Three Sides to Every Story” is so critical for U.S. consumers to remember to find fair, more factual, more integrity from their news sources. This is why I often watch Al Jazeera or utilize their website. And right now, with our unprovoked U.S. attack and war on Iran by our fake pretend Commander-in-Chief and his Secretary of War, and the massive ripple-effects it is causing for Americans back home at the gas pumps, grocery stores, utilities, as well as nations and their citizens around the world… we simply cannot rely on this administration’s press releases and conferences (or Truth social X) for any direction or understanding. Right now we cannot obtain or rely on the full truth of:

1. Why this war was started by him,
2. Was Iran really an imminent threat to the U.S. homeland,
3. What is the true status of the war right now, or
4. How and when will the war conclude.

Our POTUS never consulted, brought forth or debated any of these crucial points with Congress (or for Americans) the merit of this Iranian War as our U.S. Constitution dictates he do, and he took a solemn vow again for the second time January 20, 2025, to uphold and abide by our Constitution! Our POTUS breaks this solemn vow, the law all the time while in the White House! How many times will this bogus, idiot Commander-in-Chief get away with so much un-Constitutional, illegal behavior?

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Nevertheless, if your own good conscience wants to have more of the facts and truth about today’s current U.S. administration and what is really happening domestically or around the world, then you have no choice but to take the above two news-consumption methods. If you only watch, browse, or listen to one source of news and (dis-)information, you are NOT getting all or more of the facts. Period. Because privately owned news media or publicly traded news media cannot be wholly trusted to share fairly all the facts and how events and their causes play out. Profits are their bottom-line, every single day.

As my father used to often say, “There is always three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the Sunday morning paper.” And that might not be all points-of-view on the controversy and much of one or two slanted stories might be highly falsified propaganda. Think about it.

One is entitled to their own personal opinion, but no one is exclusively entitled to the facts. The facts are always independent of the narrator(s), including our POTUS. Always.

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