It seems as though no one is willing to seek the truth anymore. Why is this so?

News headlines, especially on social media sites, intentionally lack specificity of facts in order to grab the reader’s attention. Missing facts IS “misinformation”…One needs to read the actual article to understand the context of the headline. Even then, one must scrutinize the language used in the article. The reader will scroll through multiple advertisements before they get to the main points of the article, and even then no relevant information will be revealed. It’s almost as though the journalists are complicit in a game of chess where cash is king. Well, many of them are complicit!!

But journalists who work within the corporate news media are only the “so called” messenger. Content comes from elsewhere. Let’s think about this because events are happening around us all the time. The events that are news “worthy” are typically what make the headlines. Journalists must track down the events, report relevant facts, and interview key sources without bias, conjecture and judgment. Words like “alleged”, “purported”, “claimed”, “unsubstantiated” are needed in a first report. If the reader/listener is not seeing/hearing these words in a first report then they are apt to misinterpret the story.

Likewise, an awful injustice can be done by simply reading or listening to hearsay that has no corroborating evidence. Oral history might be noteworthy, but should be taken lightly. Repeating something over and over does not make it truth. Repeatedly publishing someone else’s hearsay or leaks to the press does not make it truth.

I dislike any journalism based on the above stated flimsy methods. Let’s stop factualizing unsupported narratives and not reporting missing information. This is actual misinformation, and corporations who advertise within it are culpable of the worst kind of cronyism.