Saturday Morning Rant

If you care about world events, this is the single most important web site you need to open up every single damn day:

http://mediamatters.org/

It doesn’t matter to me whether someone is progressive, conservative, ultra-liberal, or whether they hug donkeys or kiss elephants on election day, so don’t take this as a partisan post. Everyone should vote their conscience, and while I don’t share the ideologies of some, I respect the ethics of the individual and the essence of democracy. However, it is almost impossible to make educated choices if truth in the media is so easy to skew. Every day of my life, I see, on the news, opinion presented as fact. Shouldn’t that be relegated to the op/ed columns? I see people’s words deliberately misquoted for the sake of a story, or to drive a point home. Is it just me, or is that grossly unethical?

I have about 500 examples I want to present, but for the sake of saving space and sparing your eyes, I’ll let it go. This isn’t just my opinion, this is a fact: bullshit yellow-stained journalism hurts /everyone/. Knowing half the facts /hurts everyone/. Making choices that shape the world based on misrepresentation and manipulation is just plain wrong.