> it's pretty rare for a news organization of whatever political persuasion to report outright falsehoods
Have you been not consuming news for the last 5 years?
Have you been not consuming news for the last 5 years?
The Westboro Baptist Church could start a news outlet and report on every single time a gay man did something wrong or immoral. They wouldn't need to make anything up - there are a lot of gay men in the world. But would this be morally acceptable?
To give a much more politically correct example of the very same thing, the media harps enormously on most cases of whites committing violence against black individuals. To do so is generally basically factual but the degree to which it is done without giving context can create an enormous slant to a more contextually nuanced situation.