THE MEDIA AND THE TRUTH

by Lawrence Wilson, MD

Ó April 2010, The Center For Development

How to find the truth in our world. I have learned over the years that in order to learn the truth about a situation, one must read or at least become well acquainted with several sides of every story. This is an absolute truth on earth at this time, because there is a tremendous amount of corruption of the truth, or lying, plus there is a lot of misunderstanding and lack of understanding, even when the media and authors and others strive for the truth. So I advise anyone who want the truth to read widely, spend time watching the television shows that you don’t like much, and do not be put off by people’s style, but rather focus on the information itself.

The rest of this article is about media sources that I recommend, and those to avoid if you want the truth. They are not absolutes, but they hold most of the time.

TRUTHFUL MEDIA SOURCES

Television. The best single source I have found is Fox News, although it is far from perfect. Other television networks like CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, Link TV, and many others are much more unreliable in their news reporting. I would avoid them totally, as the amount of truth is not worth your time. They are okay on some issue reporting, but really do not understand the issues well.

Radio. The conservative talk shows are often best. Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Rush Limbaugh, Shawn Hannity, Glen Beck, Michael Savage and others may seem angry or unloving, at times, but they offer what is often the only way to learn what is really going on in the world.

My main objection to these talk show hosts is they do not understand the medical system and the importance of diet, natural foods, vitamin and mineral supplements, and natural healing methods.

All of these programs can be accessed via the internet so that you can listen at your leisure, when you want, and even if your local AM radio station does not carry the program.

In contrast, I find that National Public Radio or NPR is very left-wing. They are very smooth and on listening casually you can think they are totally objective and just reporting the news, but they are not. They do not report both sides of the story correctly, and they conveniently omit many very important stories. They are not always “wrong”, but they do not give you the whole picture, so your mind is not educated properly by listening to these stations, at all. Unless you counter their “news” and other shows with the AM conservative talk radio, you will become hopelessly ignorant, off-base and often confused because NPR is confused.

Internet News Sites.

For politics: WWW.BIGGOVERNMENT.COM. A related site is WWW.BREITBART.COM. Other very good ones include WWW.TOWNHALL.COM and WWW.DRUDGEREPORT.COM.

For superficial news, the Fox News website is not bad.

For great history – the true history – go to WWW.WALLBUILDERS.COM.

Magazines. Once again, if you want to read a news magazine, you should read the conservative magazines such as Newsmax or the Weekly Standard.

I would not bother with standard magazines such as Time © and Newsweek ©. These have a very liberal and left-wing or progressive slant that makes their news and coverage very unreliable.

Newspapers. There are very few really good newspapers left. The Wall Street Journal is not too bad, but it is not great. Some small hometown papers may be okay, but don’t count on it.

The New York Times is horrible, even if it is “well-respected”. It regularly lies and omits the truth. USA Today is no better and is quite a superficial paper, as well. Therefore, I cannot recommend a national newspaper as a great source of information today.

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

Newspapers, in particular, and the media in general used to do something called in-depth or investigative reporting. This was not just a program or two per month, but a daily activity of the mass media. It was careful, factual reporting, with fact-checking at each step, and without much of a political agenda or ax to grind. It was simply a search for the truth.

Those who are young must learn that this kind of reporting is almost all gone today. The newspapers are barely surviving, those that remain, and they don’t have the staff to do real reporting. Perhaps some do have the staff, like the New York Times, but they don’t care or in most cases they have become hopelessly left-wing or liberal and their stories and investigations reflect this political agenda. Therefore, they are not helpful and often the newspaper “news” is little more than propaganda. This is indeed a shame.

However, this role has been taken over, to some degree at least, by the internet news sites. One that I highly recommend is the Drudge Report, for example. Another is the columns, website and books by Michelle Malkin.

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