{"id":4582,"date":"2021-03-04T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","slug":"who-do-you-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4582","title":{"rendered":"WHO DO YOU TRUST?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0After carefully observing the media over recent years, I am currently experiencing a crisis of confidence when it comes to national news. I really don&#8217;t know who to trust anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 &#8211; any report from any news outlet &#8211; is the following: &#8220;I wonder how much of that is true&#8221;. This thought is quickly followed by &#8220;I doubt I will ever know for sure&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I don&#8217;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?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of distortions and misrepresentations continues to multiply while retractions and mea culpas have become endangered species.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which leads to a valid but unanswerable question: who factchecks the factcheckers?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has left me a little discombobulated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;s claim to BE truth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0After carefully observing the media over recent years, I am currently experiencing a crisis of confidence when it comes to national news. I really don&#8217;t know who to trust anymore.\u00a0 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4583,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions\/4583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}