The U.S. Media Ran Terrorist Lies & I’ve Lost My Faith in Them
3 min readNov 1, 2023
October 17, 2023, is the day I stopped trusting the American news media.
It pains me beyond belief to write those words. I started my career as a daily newspaper reporter two decades ago. For years, I was guided by old school editors who continually pounded one specific message into my brain: Do not publish single source stories.
