What is news? If ten people see the same situation, they will produce ten different versions of what happened. Who is right? Is any of the ten issuing a true opinion of what actually happened? Every person sees a situation in his or her own light and to them that is the correct portrayal. Most of the journalists on the world and national scene today were educated in very liberal institutions by very liberal professors. Journalism instructors are probably the most liberal of all educators, many of them leaning perhaps as far left as socialism or communism. Is it any wonder that our news from the main stream media is tainted far to the left?
Talk radio has introduced another form of news. Many consider it closer to opinion rather than news but there is a crowd that relies on the talk show hosts for the bulk of their information about what is happening in the nation and the world. Most of the talk show hosts were not educated in Journalism and they are generally leaning toward the right. Many of their shows are very popular.
With the Internet and blogging there has arisen another source of information. Some estimates have the blogging audience in the ten of millions. Most of the bloggers get their information second hand or third hand and then issue their opinion of what happened. This is not to say that bloggers are inaccurate or insincere. Often they are able to sift out the true story through their diligence and persistence. Liberals do not have a talk show structure and since many of them are very computer literate, they have learned to rely on blogging to tell their side of the story.
But all this comes down to the question: Whom do you believe? Since nobody really has the absolute truth, does it make any difference? It all depends on where you stand in the puzzle. Maybe we are all misinformed!
