Read Between the Lies

In his letter entitled Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?, Orson Scott Card paints a clear picture of how opinionated and self-interested the media can be.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/honestreporter.asp

I have long maintained that what we hear and see in the controlled news is just propaganda designed to sell, by manipulated fabrication of the truth. Pick a topic and spin it around until it gets the attention of the mindless populace and they will buy it and believe it. Pull it from under the bed sheeets, soak it in blood, and drag it through the muck and the hungry mob will relish it like a footlong at a Diamonback game. Journalism has evolved into just politics in print. It isn't governed by truth or even a "need to know" dictate anymore. Because of big money and power mongering it has become a "need to deceive" doctrine by unscrupulous puppets with the power of the pen.

Those of us hungry for the facts, that can actually read, are being force fed volumes of garbage dumped on our plate and then were told just how delicious it really is. If you tell someone something enough times, they just might start believing it. Make it raunchy and you have a best seller.

When it comes to modern day journalism, if you want to find the truth, you have to read between the lies.

-Rogue