After carefully observing the media over recent years, I am currently experiencing a crisis of confidence when it comes to national news. I really don’t know who to trust anymore.
I used to simply believe the things I would read in a newspaper or see on the evening news. Now, my typical reaction to a news report – any report from any news outlet – is the following: “I wonder how much of that is true”. This thought is quickly followed by “I doubt I will ever know for sure”.
Now I don’t even trust my own judgment about how objective, thorough or discerning any particular outlet or individual reporter might be. How can I possibly measure their objectivity?
The number of distortions and misrepresentations continues to multiply while retractions and mea culpas have become endangered species.
Which leads to a valid but unanswerable question: who factchecks the factcheckers?
It has left me a little discombobulated.
If there is a silver lining to my loss of trust in the news media, it is a new appreciation of the uniqueness of Jesus’s claim to BE truth.
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