News ruining words: likely and believe

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3. I mostly agree, but am wary of false equivalence.

News for profit doesn't work very well. I would much prefer news that has no bottom line to cause a conflict of interest. Straight news loses out to emotion all too often. It's a huge cause of our current polarization.

Legitimate news organizations try to keep it under control and you can see a lot of effort and success (particularly after the "fake news" and "nothing is real" campaign by the right) on behalf of journalistic integrity. But the bottom line drives a lot of cutesy stuff, false equivalence, and emotional exploitation for viewership.