Sunday, October 14, 2007

Introduction


Things are not always what they seem. The American media knows this. Politicians everywhere know this. You are only as informed as you allow yourself to be. Unfortunately, most Americans spend precious little time searching for the important answers to the important questions that impact today and eventually tomorrow. As a rule, the American public relies on newspapers and television for their information and form their individual opinions based largely on those two sources. That is a large mistake. Regrettably, reporters, editors, and publishers tend to have agendas that they both intentionally and unintentionally frame their reporting with to produce the news that is disseminated to the public. Thus, a story can be spun in any way, important facts can be left out, and opinions can be stated as facts. A headline does not even have to match the text of the story. Simply, having one source for a story is inadequate. Publishers know that few people search out multiple sources for their news, so if they can "hook" a reader or viewer to rely on them for their news, then that person can be manipulated. By this blog, I am going to attempt to give my views on important issues of the day using multiple sources (newspapers, magazines, blogs, internet, television, radio, etc etc) to support my views. I will not "spin" my views. Some will be liberal, some conservative, some middle-of-the-road. My goal is to arrive at a correct viewpoint by using all of the sources available. Let's see how it goes.

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