Listening to the news means the viewer assumes there does exist a disparity of information between the broadcaster and the viewer. But how they source their information is always an opaque and questionable process. They don't typically report events the way they happened, or on time, or in ways that reflect poorly on their sponsors, and their silence, their noise can both be bought through PR services. They don't publish their standards and uniformly do not have public archives making their claims difficult to prove or disprove over time. And this is true through all mediums of news, which includes tv, radio, newsprint, cable, fax circulars, and the internet.

But they do have one trick they keep using for making it look like they have a disparity in information; the Lock and Key propaganda technique. What they seem to do is misreport news fragments through known unreliable channels before 'correcting' themselves through their own.

Now you look at the sources of noise and chatter; anonymous boards, botnets, fax circulars (this route is dead these days), twitter, and word of mouth. Whatever the source, look at it. Without a reputation they are routes of misinformation. So are 'lower totem' news organizations including broadsheets and questionable websites.

The lock is the torrent of misinformation thats spewed out constantly and the key is the corrections the news makes.