Do Not Trust the Press
When a teenager in Finland exposes another Reuters lie. And the New Republic , tries to dance around the mendacity of the Baghdad diarist, you can be sure that the press is not to be trusted. Especially the left leaning, anti-war press who loves to tell us on a daily basis how we are being lied to by the administration. It doesn’t make their case very strong when they are constantly lying as well.
I get a kick reading some of these left wing blogs which are so full of self righteousness about evil Republicans and their endless falsehoods, while they suck up the bogus stories of the very same sources I mentioned above.
Whether you are on the right or the left, never take anything in print at face value. Everyone has an agenda.
A friend of mine recently returned from Israel telling me all about how the press has it so wrong in their coverage over there. Everywhere she went she encountered Jews and Arabs living side by side without any tension. She was invited into a Muslim man’s home for coffee just for admiring his garden while walking past. Certainly there are areas of contention but the press magnifies and distorts any scrap of friction they can find. Same thing in Iraq, Afghanistan, and even here. That’s why I disregard most of what I read in the newspaper, when I bother to pick it up.
Posted by Paul T on 08/11 at 04:52 PM
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