Andy, who is Matt Orfalea? Are you saying we shouldn't trust him? Ok.

I don't trust Jeffrey Sachs either.

Regarding the pipeline explosion: You are convinced it was a US job and see everything through that lens. It probably wasn't a US job (what did they get out of it? The pipleline was already shut down) and so your view on it is heavily distorted by your belief (without evidence).

Regarding news sources, no source is 100% trust for me. Australia's ABC and the BBC are pretty high tho - when they report a fact they generally get it right, and if you email them a correction they generally correct the article. Reuters and AP are generally pretty high too but not infallible.

ABC and BBC will sometimes avoid reporting a fact if the fact counteracts one of their pet narratives, and that knocks off more than a few points on the trustometer for me.

On the other end of the scale is any murdoch press outlet - they almost all operate as propaganda.

Somewhere in the middle but still low trust are the other US commercial news services - CNN, MSNBC etc. During the Biden presidency it seemed like 80% or more of their content was about Trump still.