Anti-Truth

Lately there has been a trend in reporting from "reputable news sources". I am calling this trend anti-truth reporting. This is basically a method of mis-direction from the truth of the matter.


How this tactic is typically employed is by basing a report around a few select facts, which are independently benign and typically not really news worthy, and then extrapolating the remainder of the report around blind speculation and the lack of any more facts. Now, sometimes the lack of evidence is evidence of something in itself, but presenting a news report based on this tactic is ingenuine and rather unethical.


Now, you may be wondering what I'm talking about and the perfect example of this anti-truth tactic is that recently there was a story of Fox News about a certain Senator Barack Obama. Now, if the report was done in a more genuine, non-fear mongering way that was geared more towards knowing more about the man instead of making people think that he's a terrorist that has infiltrated the Legislative Branch, it might not have been so bad. What happened instead is that someone found out that he attended a Muslim school when he was younger. Now, to a normal, rational individual thats more of an interesting factoid than something to base an entire story about; what ended up happening is that they aired a story containing a lot of speculation and hearsay.


It turns out that when a competitor news network did a little . . . what do you call it? . . . ahh, journalism, they discovered that what is basically amounted to is a parochial school. So, if the school that he attended was a feeder team for the terrorist all-stars then the same logic would apply to a Catholic parochial school being training for an entire new generation of crusaders.

It seems to me that if a "news network" wants to be seen as being "fair and balanced", then they need to take a little bit of effort and do the research it takes to keep them from being embarassed when someone else finds out what they missed. Are these guys horribly understaffed, under funded, or employing a bunch of lazy bastards that think they are still in college (if they actually went) that just turn in BS reports like they did back when they were kegmaster.


Now, if reporting continues to follow this unethical and improper practice of pseduo-reporting the anti-truth instead of doing the proper leg work that is required to disseminate important or factual information to the masses that will allow them to make educated decisions that relate to the safety and stability of the nation, bad decisions will be made and everyone will suffer.

In short, Obama did not go to terrorism school, stem cell research does not kill anyone nor does it clone anyone, and sending 21,000 more troops to Iraq (without the approval of anyone) is a troop surge.