Report on Tax Day

I have never been at a rally before other than you know high school stuff...It was so fun. I wandered around through the people just watching and listening. I came home and was just so excited...then I watch the local news and read the local newspaper and was just deflated. First it was amazing on how they reported the 'facts' I'm assuming news stories gather information and hope they are reporting the truth but it was as if they took 1/4 truths and mixed them with 3/4 opinion and in a few cases just down right inaccuracies. If I hadn't been there I would never have given it a second thought. The trouble with this kind of reporting is the hundreds of people who tune in thinking they are getting truth. Most of these people watching don't think to verify what they are hearing on the news. How does the average Joe discern fact from fiction? This is scary. The tea parties were what they were...but how often with other news stories does this happen? How do we know? Where do we find out what is real what is truth?
Lisa