Media Lies Media evil?

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Can anyone, beat both the media and a political opponent and is that fair?

Can we expect to have fair elec­tions and more impor­tant­ly can we expect to find meth­ods that make sense in this brave new world
where the media have appar­ent­ly gone to sup­port­ing only one par­ty and not report­ing the news when it comes to one side of the news,
one ques­tion that seems even more valid is “Can you real­ly call it news any more?”

Can you trust the media to tell you the truth?

And is it OK if they lie to you if its for your own good?

Should the media tell the truth or lie so that you can feel bet­ter?

There are some seri­ous ques­tions about what is being pre­sent­ed as fact in today’s media and that is some­thing that should con­cern every­one, when a free soci­ety no longer has a free press and that press now is either con­trolled by large cor­po­ra­tion that might per­haps alleged­ly even be manip­u­lat­ing by using news sto­ries to cause pan­ic in the stock mar­ket, should that be allowed to con­tin­ue?

Exam­ple num­ber one.
Last night on a local Fox news chan­nel, a news sto­ry was run that claimed that pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions were result­ing in more deaths than ille­gal drugs, includ­ing hero­in, and oth­er very seri­ous drugs, they claimed that with­out any sup­port­ing facts, nor any oth­er evi­dence that what they were say­ing was true, they cit­ed no clear com­pelling evi­dence that would sug­gest that this was even true.
Now, the result is that some peo­ple will actu­al­ly believe this trash, and it is false, because street drugs still account for the larg­er over dose deaths by an alarm­ing per­cent­age, so what are we to learn from this type of news sto­ry?
That you can buy street drugs and your safer than going to a doc­tor?
Of course not, that would be stu­pid right, I mean real­ly stu­pid, who would do such a thing any­way? Hope­ful­ly no one would but the point seems clear, The war on drugs has now shift­ed to the war on the peo­ple, and this is what they plan on doing with the help of the media?
Sounds crazy, but if that is not the plan then what are they doing telling lies on the air?
Every­one knows that using street drugs is far more dan­ger­ous than going to a doc­tor to get legal care, yet the fox news sto­ry, seemed to tell a dif­fer­ent sto­ry.
A sto­ry that is incred­i­ble, a sto­ry sug­gest­ing that there are thou­sands and thou­sands of peo­ple dying from tak­ing pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions, every sec­ond of every day?  Real­ly, and what sta­tis­ti­cal mod­el are you using to get that infor­ma­tion?  Do you use the mor­tal­i­ty tables?  How about the Coro­ner reports and sta­tis­tics?  or did you only check one coun­ty in one large city?
What makes more sense, that the news can be manip­u­lat­ed for an agen­da or that so many peo­ple are dying at the hands of doc­tors than say your aver­age street thug?