I think everybody is blurring facts these days in the news, FOX seems to hire people who are the most controversial and then they urge them to be controversial. I hate U.S. news sources, they really do all sound the same, use the same adjectives and phrases, it's enough to make you cringe.
The only place I get my news anymore is online and the BBC World Service, they seem to be the only news organization that still values pure journalism in the spirit of the old radio and television news sources; everybody else in my view has demented journalism into some reality t.v. soap opera and I think it's disgusting, in the words of Edward R. Murrow;
"To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost.
This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful.
Stonewall Jackson, who knew something about the use of weapons, is reported to have said, "When war comes, you must draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." The trouble with television is that it is rusting in the scabbard during a battle for survival. "
