02-04-2017, 12:36 PM
Y'know, if I read a story critical of the new administration and saw it was sourced from al Reuters and an unnamed Pentagon source, my first thought would be, "fake news."
Now, it *may* be true (or some of the details might be, or none), but given the full-court press by obviously and even admittedly bent media... how can a person with any pretensions to wisdom believe any of it? When all sources have an ulterior motive all the time, there are no sources... except in the olod Hundred Flowers/primitive First Amendment sense of trying to find the truth by sorting it out from among all the disparate, known-to-be-bent sources.
For a short time - maybe no time - Journalism was a high calling like Medicine, Engineering, or The Profession of Arms. We're definitely back at No Time now.
Now, it *may* be true (or some of the details might be, or none), but given the full-court press by obviously and even admittedly bent media... how can a person with any pretensions to wisdom believe any of it? When all sources have an ulterior motive all the time, there are no sources... except in the olod Hundred Flowers/primitive First Amendment sense of trying to find the truth by sorting it out from among all the disparate, known-to-be-bent sources.
For a short time - maybe no time - Journalism was a high calling like Medicine, Engineering, or The Profession of Arms. We're definitely back at No Time now.
Non-practicing atheist