I would, myself include NPR and PBS in that list of biased per say. Of here, we have this thing about freedom of the press. That of course does not mean that the press is not biased. Of basically have learn to question every bit of news I get.  Not only of a question of what they are telling everyone, but it can be a question of  what they are not telling when it comes to the news. Add to that, how it is worded can affect the view point of the receiver of said news. If that is not bad enough, throw in facebook and twitter with their good and bad points and you have a little bit of a mess. One piece of advice I can give is that the first to a story may  be the first to get it wrong. Of course, checking plenty of sources is also a real good thing. Think of some of those tech stories that you see on the news that was not quite right. For example, if someone click on a link that they thought was the log in page of their bank account. Let go on to say that they were able to log in. Let’s going on to say that that log on page was not the login page of this person’s bank account. Most of us would know that clicking on links in email is not a good thing for the most part. On the other hand, a news reporter that might not know how computer type stuff works might say that that bank account I was talking about was hacked in to when the person who owned that account was tricked into giving up their username and password. Now to facebook going public, this is old news. Awhile back, they sold shares back a while. I do not remember when. One of the things that shareholders want is money. So, the more money that facebook makes, the happier the shareholders are. It does not matter how much you like that. The main way that facebook makes their money is by showing you ads. As far as I know, they use the info you give them to attempt to show you things that you will buy. This make include: pages you like, things you link to, posts you make, your age, your address, who you vote for if they have that info, and ETC. what, you do not like that? Facebook most likely does not care. You can use it or not as you wish. I mainly use it as an IM client. Grant it, it is a IM client with a board for all your friends to write on. HTH.

I think that's true of all writing/reporting.  I try to silence my prefeerence as much as I can, which is an art I don't believe anyone can master.  I don't know who said it but I try to live by the idea that one must attempt to make points without making enemies.

Cities as war zones? I don't need to go over seas for that, nor does it take muslim or any other extremists either. Just ask the people who live in Chicago, which is suffering an extremely high murder rate along with what appears to be an ongoing gang war, right now.