December 7, 2025
My whole life, I’ve noticed a trend, something almost everyone I’ve ever met has talked about at one point or another; I believe that America, possibly the world, has reached a point of turning, and we’re shifting towards another direction in getting our news. Gallup, Pew Research Center, and The U.S. Census Bureau have all documented this shift: some like fast paced and other reporting styles that fit their preferences; the data seems to also indicate that some perceive certain outlets lean a certain way or another within the political isle. All of these things go into the deciding factor equations that we all use to get our information. For many years now, all I have ever wanted is a news outlet that (simply) presents the news as it is, just facts and nothing else, educational when needed, but the education I’m talking about isn’t the type of educating that treats people like we’re not intelligent enough to make up our own decisions, but rather education that deep dives further into the data to break down facts in their truest form in order to expel any confusion or fear.
Let me be honest with my opinion here: the news is already scary enough without us in media sprinkling anything onto it to make a scary situation seem worse than it already is. These stories and situations affect our lives, our countries, our states, our communities, our world as a whole. But I’ve found that, if we dig for the information, the most reliable of which (I believe) is pure documentation passed down from the horse’s mouth (meaning the specific organization, office, official, etc.), and really break it down to see what the facts are for ourselves: the information and the truth is, almost, never as dark as what it seems.
There were headlines this week that said that congress banned hemp (not at all implying that there’s anything wrong with any of those headlines); but the deeper truth is that they’re only closing a loophole in the current law by banning hemp products that are capable of intoxication. Now, we here at the post and me myself personally, cast no blame or wrongdoing allegations and I am most certainly not accusing anyone or any organization of wrongdoing: it’s not our job at this media company, and it’s not my job as a person, to do any of that, and we rely on others to help us find the most relevant stories that are going around the nation.
I didn’t get into the news business to try and put anyone out of business, start a revolution, or try to change the way things are done in the industry: I have absolutely zero malicious intent whatsoever, period, and I am in no way, shape or form implying that anyone else (any journalist, news outlet, company, organization or otherwise) is doing any of those things either. No, I simply found a different way to present the news that I (personally) believed was missing in the world today and I decided to bring that method to the world: nothing more and nothing less.
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Sources (Referenced in this Article)
• PEW RESEARCH CENTER
• GALLUP
• U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
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