In the fog of war, America needs news it can trust 

It is never a good thing when news outlets become major players in the stories they are reporting. But that’s the situation now, as establishment media inject their spins and chosen narratives into stories about the military action in Iran.  

Journalists and editors are not content to just report on the events and known facts of the war. Instead, these sanctimonious “surrogates of the people” insist on massaging story lines and pushing agendas. Simply reporting news is apparently a thing of the past.  

This narrative management comes from both left-of-center and right-of-center media, but as most Americans acknowledge, establishment media generally lean left. It is little wonder the nation’s news consumers are struggling to make sense of the various narratives masquerading as journalism. War time is not the time for either liberal or conservative slants. 

Sensible Americans want full, measured and even-handed information about news events. News consumers can make up their own minds and develop their own opinions based on the facts of any situation. That approach served the nation well for decades, when news was supposed to be delivered in a nonpartisan, impartial manner, with opinion and analysis clearly labeled. It only figures that as the professional journalistic standards of the past have decayed, public confidence in the news industry has collapsed.

Providing news coverage of a military conflict is certainly one of journalism’s most difficult challenges. Various pronouncements from the American, Israeli, Iranian and other interested governments must be scrutinized and vetted. Nothing can........

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