Thursday 26 January 2017

TAKING TRUTH FOR GRANTED

Most news reports these days appear to be opinions rather than actual journalism.

This is probably the result of Journalistic professors in the university's stating that 'facts' are not facts at all but evidences of textural bias and it is therefore not necessary to strive for 'objectivity' as it is an illusion. 
This is a classic post-modern interpretation of reality and is very dangerous in that it destroys the very idea of truth and Pilates musing on "what is truth"(John 18:38) becomes the mainstream worldview.

An example of the lack of journalistic integrity (an oxymoron these days?) is the reporter who claimed that Trump had removed MLKing's bust from the Oval office, obviously drawing an oblique sneer about the very mild reproof Obama received about removing Churchill's bust at the moment he encamped in the Oval Office:
He also admonished a journalist for erroneously reporting on Friday that Mr. Trump had removed a bust of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office, calling the mistake — which was corrected quickly — “egregious.”
Evidently a 'secret service person' was standing in front of it which obscured his view, an admission that he didn't see and jumped to a juicy conclusion without verifying the facts before going to print, an action perhaps intended to fuel the BLM's already incendiary actions (just an opinion mind you!).

Fake news stories are becoming so frequent that I am surprised anyone believes anything anymore...a classic action on the part of evil and degeneracy.

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