[norwaypinesavage]

"I was taught at a very young age that 70 per cent of what you read in newspapers is baloney."

70 percent is far too low.

I have a friend who crashed an ultra-light. That's hardly an incident that would evoke bias. Yet, the newspaper reports were so far from accurate that one could hardly believe they were reporting the same incident. Just think of what it would be like if the reporter were biased.

[dogbyte12]

I have been interviewed 2 times for a newspaper. One time by my college paper and one time by a small local. The college paper quoted me accurately. The small local reportette must have thought I was boring. She actually made up an entire quote from me with flowery language. She did get my point, so she didn't twist what I said. She just thought I guess that she could say it better than I did, so she paraphrased me, but made it a quote. I didn't complain about it at the time, because I thought it made me sound good, but it did make me realize that you can never really trust the press.