Story from John McCain's Former Hanoi Cell Mate

[Dr. Shane]

McCain is a politician - no doubt. He gives and takes and knows how to compromise in order to accomplish something.

This is a political train of thought. It is better to compromise and accomplish something than stand firm and accomplish nothing.

The other train of thought is that it is better to do nothing than compromise and do something which doesn't serve the original goal.

[carolaa]

I'm curious whom you would consider to be credible news sources.

I tend to be pretty skeptical of the mainstream U.S. media, and I try to listen to the BBC as often as I can, just to get a different perspective. I like independent news, also, and wish there were more sources for it.

[Dr. Shane]

I don't trust any one source of news. In my home I watch CNN, FOXNews and Al Jazeera English because that is what I get from satellite. On the internet I surf various news sources. Most of the time we can trust a story when it is reported by more than one news source. Often too, news outlets practice selective reporting - they only report part of the story. Thus when we get our news from more than one source, we tend to get more of the "facts".