Byron Hathaway
Aug 25, 2017 · 2 min read

Truth has many faces…

If Bill Maher and Fareed Zakaria are both listed as Executive Producer/Producer respectively, and Rupert Murdoch is an investor, then who steers this ship? So, which is it…

From your piece, it seems Vice only wants viewers and all else be damned. But, a few of the network’s unsettling pieces cannot be described as anything more than wake-up calls to the unwashed and benumbed masses. Its rare for the alt-right’s town crier (Murdoch) to be waking anyone up. Can’t you sell more shit to zombies and the somnambulists?

The most depressing news is on Disney’s ABC. It features a bunch of smiling buffoons at the national and the local (Los Angeles) level. There’s almost never a story about anything other than who or what will make their viewers feel warm and fuzzy. This is nonsense, not news…pure and simple.

I’m not letting CBS or NBC off the hook either.

Al Jazeera and Democracy Now are closer to real new sources than the above mentioned traditional networks. But even these purveyors of “truth” fall short. Here’s why.

Truth has many faces.

The Central Intelligence Agency has a section informing the public about each country in the world. The site covers the history, the geography, the economics, and much more. It’s a good place to start when one wants to have a base from which to achieve understanding about the world around us.

The World Economic Forum has articles on both needs and trends of groups of peoples, be they citizens of a country, or members of a social demographic.

Sciencedaily.com has abstracts of just released white-papers on many of science’s branches of inquiry.

Wikipedia has world headlines and an “on this day” feature that helps us understand further by comparing what’s happening with what’s happened.

And so on.

There’s plenty of places to get news, real news. But even saying that leaves me open to criticism from people of different stripes who have a preset bias as to what constitutes news.

So, if we keep in mind the idea that truth has many faces, and if we set aside our own biases in the interest of self-enlightenment, we can find information that is informative and stripped of hyperbolic nonsense.

But, and here’s the rub. One actually has to seek out information rather than having it delivered by “friends” who have their own agenda, which is usually selling both cars and ideas.

Good luck.

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