Friday, February 26, 2010
The Media - Overstepping?
Here's an interesting article.
It discusses the media's use of editorials and opinion columns to influence matters that it knows nothing about.
Considering the media's known bias and their inability to get information right, I have to side with the author...
It discusses the media's use of editorials and opinion columns to influence matters that it knows nothing about.
Considering the media's known bias and their inability to get information right, I have to side with the author...
At BigJournalism.com, Lawrence Meters writes about it:
"Let’s face it – 100% verifiable facts are hard to come by. We don’t have time to learn the truth ourselves. Instead, we desperately want somebody to do the hard work for us, and rely on them for our enlightenment. Regrettably, we have been trained to turn to the news media as that source. Somehow we have been led to believe that all journalists are the second coming of Edward R. Murrow, crusaders for the balanced presentation of facts.
That’s our critical mistake, because by trusting in news media, we give up our power. We give up on actually finding the truth. Instead, we have turned our thoughts over to a corrupt source. We have become willing participants in the great mind-control experiment of modern society.
Worse, the media knows this."
