What if we read more?
Only 33% of us read newspapers… anymore.
Unfortunately, 71% rely on national TV media, which is only 22% accurate
in their reporting.
Ponder this values
statement:
1 Timothy 3 New International Version
Qualifications for Overseers
(leaders):
“Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer
desires a noble task.
Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his
wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not
given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of
money.”
Trust in the Corporate Mass Media (Source
- Gallup Poll): funded by multinational corporate advertising, returns to
All-Time Low.
“Mass media
(Source – Wikipedia) are the means
through which information is transmitted to a large audience. This includes
newspapers, television, radio, and more recently the Internet. Those who
provide news and information, and the outlets for which they work, are known as
the news media.
The "Pew Research Center for the People & the
Press" has been tracking views of press performance since 1985, and the
overall ratings remain quite negative. Fully 66% say news stories often are
inaccurate, 77% think that news organizations tend to favor one side, and 80%
say news organizations are often influenced by powerful people and
organizations.
In a commercialized media context, the media can often not
afford to ignore an important issue which another television station,
newspaper, or radio station is willing to pick up.”
The media may be able to create new issues by reporting
(Caitlyn Jenner?) and not cover news that should be considered seriously; Trade
Promotion Authority and Transpacific Partnership affecting 10’s of millions of
U.S. Citizens and their ability to have a living wage job.
Also, they can obscure issues by reporting through
negligence and distraction.
Maybe if every Journalist had to adhere to the Journalist’s Creed; thing might get better.
This will only happen if there a revolt
against watching, listening to, and reading only National corporate media and boycotting
sponsors that support mis-representation of facts or just plain not reporting
critical issues related to citizen’s needs.
It is this writer’s
opinion that accurate news reporting exits in non-corporate owned and funded
places like Free Speech TV (FSTV).
The writer of this article used to watch PBS until Government, at all levels,
started to destroy or control it… in an attempt to make us illiterate, uniformed, and controllable.
