In this day and age, the spread of misinformation can be disastrous. 

With growing technology designed to show us only what we want to see or anything that will keep our attention the longest, we should not have to go to extensive lengths to find true, unbiased news.  

However, with watered down, whitewashed history as well as news stations airing distorted facts, it has grown to be nearly impossible to find impartial information. 

This is not only the case with news sources, but also with our classrooms and textbooks. 

Sociologist, historian and author James W. Loewen spoke about his research into the American history curriculum and education. He explained that providing students with an insufficient education will prevent them from developing the understanding to navigate through inaccurate information that is often based on opinion and attempt to seek out impartial facts. 

Those students will join the majority of adults, becoming people who often do not think to look elsewhere for news, but actively try to avoid learning information that conflicts with their viewpoints. 

According to a Pew Research Center study, people are more likely to interact with others as well as get their news from sources with like-minded ideas, as well as unfriend those who disagree with their perspectives. 

If political parties were to own news and broadcasting companies, it would only heighten the already immense polarization throughout the country, as well as increase bias information getting to the public.

Senior Erin Burke of Allentown discussed how biased new resources could easily skew statistics toward their viewpoint and agenda and how political parties should not be controlling the information that we are fed. 

“I doubt that we will ever live in a world where news is completely unbiased,” Burke said. “But this idea was the partial catalyst of a steep descent into a divided, misinformed nation.”