The Allegedly True News

I never usually read the local news but all these days, the mainstream national ones were getting so cliche that for refuge, I turned to them too.
What I met with was a disaster even bigger, shaking my faith in all the news I read. An incident that I had seen with my own eyes was reported wrong and a complete story had been so well concocted.
Can anyone tell me the truth that is happening in the world !

I had been really miffed with the different angles that had been presented in the Afzal Guru and Kasab cases and now this Ishrat Jehan one surfaced.

What all I know about each of them is the personal opinions of the "writers" (yes writers and not journos) of the media.

True it is because what we are getting in the name of veracity laden news are the different theories. We have to chose the one that suits our senses the best.

The road side stall guy seems to be more true in giving me the options to chose from because everything he says, I can substantiate with my own experience.

The views expressed by author are personal but they are stated with confidence enough to make us take them as true.

But, instead of the personal views, I'd appreciate if they tell us the truth.

A leader visits a calamity struck site and a journalist expresses his views against him. Then another one visits and the same journo is all praises.

Can anyone explain this disparity of thoughts. Calling themselves neutral, why do they then opine in favour or against people; leaders more so.

The newspaper now seems to be a 20page booklet, a short story book of sorts, where writers around the world are putting forth the figments of the fiction they carefully knitted into a story.

And offcourse there are news channels that make a mockery of every issue under the sun. Commercialised plots and irrelevant news just to get that coveted TRP.

My question is plain and simple; Can I please get to know the truth, the news I am paying for.
Rude on my part but dear journos, your opinions don't really matter to me

(Confused Genius is thinking that maybe the newspapers should start including case studies too along with every article they publish; that will make the thing sound more true (TIC)).