How Can This Happen by Betsey Bell
Oct 2, 2026 · 30 min · 8 segments
Journalists are supposed to give you just the facts. They provide supposition instead, and you have to get the facts on your own. Not their job man.
Betsey BellHost
Well, you know, my listeners, my Renegade Nation, journalists are your source of information, and what they write about is what you consume.
Gathers, writes, and distributes news and information to the public through print, broadcast, or digital meeting.
But it doesn't say anything when it gives you the definition of journalist about getting it right.
It's up to you to decipher whether or not the source you're getting it from is right.
Because if you don't suppose that it could be wrong, you're going to be horribly uninformed.
How can this happen? I have an example, and I'm using this just so you can disseminate the real story from the supposition.
Because journalists today are so guarded in every word they use, they're ending up not telling you the story, but telling you what they think in their minds you need to know, so as not to call them out for telling you what to suppose instead of what the facts are presenting.
Well, you know, my listeners, my Renegade Nation, journalists are your source of information, and what they write about is what you consume.
Gathers, writes, and distributes news and information to the public through print, broadcast, or digital meeting.
But it doesn't say anything when it gives you the definition of journalist about getting it right.
It's up to you to decipher whether or not the source you're getting it from is right.
Because if you don't suppose that it could be wrong, you're going to be horribly uninformed.
How can this happen? I have an example, and I'm using this just so you can disseminate the real story from the supposition.
Because journalists today are so guarded in every word they use, they're ending up not telling you the story, but telling you what they think in their minds you need to know, so as not to call them out for telling you what to suppose instead of what the facts are presenting.
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