Media Dishonesty

Here is a link to an Americana Thinker post by Randall Hoven discussing dishonesty in the media. I found it to be an interesting piece and worth the read.

Remember the "truth" we were all told as children about George Washington cutting down the cherry tree? Today, we know it to be fiction told to teach children to tell the truth, but somewhere along the line it became the truth. Who was it who said a lie repeated many times becomes the truth? Or words to that effect.

Mr. Hoven did not include just journalists, but also historians and other "non-fiction" writers in list of 101. In my opinion, journalists (which includes news networks and print corporations) and historians, in particular, should tell the truth, not the truth as they know it or want it to be, but how it actually is. It's particularly heinous that they not tell truth as their words will be forever taken as gospel. Anything and everything will eventually make its way to the Internet and will be there forever, true or not.

Reporters, journalists, non-fiction authors, and bloggers must remember that we owe it to future generations to report the truth, the facts as they are, not how we want them to be.

And for those who don't want to do the research for their books and commentary pieces (and blogs), give credit to those who did the actual research. If you don't know, then admit it. Just don't take credit for work you didn't do.