> We have a major "boy who cried wolf" problem with the media, and many of our truth-finding institutions. Media isn't a "truth-finding institution". Neither a

> We have a major "boy who cried wolf" problem with the media, and many of our truth-finding institutions. Media isn't a "truth-finding institution". Neither are global political organizations. What we have a problem with is people being brainwashed into believe that media/political organizations are "truth-finding institutions". > There've been enough instances in recent decades of arrogant incompetence and self-serving deception Because they are in the business of deception. And it's not decades. It's centuries. "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." "I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." -- Thomas Jefferson