THE MEDIA

(sigh)

A friend of mine, who has a conservative blog, wrote recently about his disgust with "The Washington Post." He wrote that even though he does not subscribe to the paper that it is delivered to his doorstep daily, at which point he immediately trashes it. I can empathize with this. I subscribed to the "Post" for a lot of years for things other than the front page, but two years ago I cancelled the subscription because I was sick of the liberal bias it espoused. I ran into the reverse when I lived in Indianapolis. "The Indianapolis Star" runs on a right-wing bias, and THAT irritated me as well -- even though I was politically aligned with it. I absolutely CANNOT watch CNN because of the bias of its management and anchors. It's almost impossible today to find a newspaper or news channel that doesn't lean one way or the other; therefore, in order to really get a handle on the news, one pretty much has to read/watch several newspapers/channels to get both sides of an issue. It's exhausting. Of course, individually we will most likely side with whatever entity best represents our singular point of view; but be warned. None of us knows the entire story EVER so the best we can do is listen, think, research and HOPE that we can get a grip on the real issues and their relevance.

(sigh)