Someone I frequently run into at the coffee shop where I do most of my writing recently asked me where I get my news.
Over 30 years ago, it was an easy question to answer. We had NBC, CBS and ABC on television. The local newspaper came every morning.
There weren’t thousands of so-called sources. No memes. No TikTok videos. No Instagram Stories. And there weren’t news outlets with extreme political bents.
Sure, there’s always bias when humans are making decisions, even back then, but there wasn’t as much top-down political direction on what and how to report.