On News One Believes
He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. – Abraham Lincoln
An article in in a university magazine recently pointed out that most people don’t believe what they hear, and read in the news. If you cannot see the Irony in that, I perhaps need to start writing something else, or maybe somewhere else, but you defiantly need to start reading something else, because I’m clearly speaking above you.
Personally, as a news junkie who will go back to news stories even years later, I believe a few things.
- What News you heard today, will, and I underline that, be corrected tomorrow.
- An News on what happened yesterday is more accurate than the News report of the same day as the event.
- The News of what Happened a week ago, is believable.
- The News report of what happened a year ago is total crock. Too much hang-wringing, litigation for defamation and retractions, not to mention the editorial pen of hindsite has made anything useful, useless.
- The News tries to define your focus, if you let that become influence, that’s your damn fault. Don’t blame others because you’re too inane to form an opinion yourself.
- The more witnesses to an event, the greater the number of conspiracies. They are not all wrong, they just can’t be all right.
OceansOfThought @ January 11, 2008