1) This article says, basically, "yeah media sucks but they don't quite *lie*. They mislead and are biased but you can still usually trust them when they make totally perfectly 100% factual statements."
2) I think, generally, the claim is correct.
Media might present biased narratives, frame things in misleading ways, and cite irrelevant facts to point towards their bias.
But they usually don't say things that are unambiguously false--just ambiguously false.
3) One interesting thing has been watching how our counterparties behave.
Most of them also follow this rule--they might try to impact your opinion with stupid arguments but they usually won't say something that's 100% false.
But some don't follow this rule. Some just lie.
4) And I think that, pretty quickly, people catch on to this--to the players that just flat out lie.
And, generally, it doesn't end up well for them. It breaks sacred rules of conduct, rules everyone knows to follow, and makes it very difficult to interface with them.
