NEW ROSS, Ireland--Traveling the world as I have this summer exposed not only different opinions about major issues, but also a difference in how journalists in free countries and propagandists in unfree ones report them.

Sadly, much of the journalism in free countries is too often behaving like propagandists in unfree countries. The result is that people who consume "news" that tends to reflect one point of view now accept that point of view as their own. They reject, sometimes strongly, a different point of view and information that counters theirs.

At the Kennedy Summer School in New Ross, I found this to be true. While an audience was receptive and seemingly appreciative of my appearance, when the time for questions came around, things took a different turn. One question was about Gaza and Israel's "genocide." As I explained the history of Israel and the numerous attempts to eradicate the Jewish people as far back........

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