The Other Side of the Story

All the protests and media reports about the Republican legislature in Raleigh have led the public to believe that our state government now works against the public good.  The tipping point seemed to be the treatment of our teachers and the education system.  All over Facebook I saw posts about the evil legislature gutting the education system and giving teachers the shaft.

I kept thinking there must be another side to the story.  No one would be so cold and heartless.  While the news media should have offered to provide the other perspective, I never saw one story explaining the Republican point of view.  It was like the whole party went behind locked doors to invent ways to subvert the will of the people.  The legislators were portrayed as out of touch, stubborn and stupid.

Then today I saw a link posted offering the other side of the story.  http://www.ncgop.org/nc-house-republicans-state-education-spending-the-facts/  Now granted, this comes from the Republicans, so it is politically motivated, but no more so than the complaints of the Democrats.

The Republicans let themselves be demonized by the media without effectively getting out their side of the story.

The media are also to blame, because they fail to answer the obvious question:  What could the Republicans possibly be thinking?

And the public should be ashamed for mindlessly buying the outlandish, biased reports from the media.