A woman reports a conversation with her ex-husband, a successful public personality and a household name in his country. She was trying to convince him that the mainstream media often told lies and created fictional narratives designed to manipulate people into acting and believing things they would not do or believe ordinarily. His response was “if we can’t trust the mainstream media, who can we trust?” Being a highly successful and duly rewarded public figure, he had a lot to lose if he challenged the narrative. What is Creator’s perspective?

Many of you hearing these words will find this quote laughable, given the extremes of conduct, the polarization of opinion passing as factual reporting being very dependent on the venue. The vast majority of the media are sympathetic to the left, so the real question at hand is whether the positions adopted by the left are worthy or, in some ways, faulty and inadequate. If the job of the media is to support the political left because they hold those views themselves personally, and believe it to be truth and the most valid perspective, there is a built-in bias that will not be fully appreciated. But it will hold the viewers of such spokespersons hostage to accepted dogma that is considered normal but might be entirely a fabrication that simply fits an accepted narrative and so will be believed and accepted on its face without question. The reality about what the media does is that it is no longer a watchdog or an investigative body looking for truth, but more a group representative of ideology looking for ways to apply its own perspective sold things that fit the narrative they like will get reported. Newsworthy events that seem to run counter to their preferred narrative will be ignored altogether, or relegated to the back pages, or a brief mention in the wee hours of the morning as a token gesture to thoroughness. The bottom line is that humans, categorically, can no longer be trusted to know, understand, and appreciate the truth of things. It is increasingly absent from view or discussion because of the constraints put on the sharing of information by the media, and this is imposed on multiple levels, both direct and indirect, and then covertly as well, through manipulation of the very minds of the people seemingly interested to watch what is happening, to be your eyes and ears as a member of the public and then inform you accurately about important doings to keep you in up to speed and aware of important matters as a voting citizen. When things are heavily filtered, censored entirely or distorted through political spin, you are being cultivated to think like them rather than to be informed of factual events important to know about to be a good citizen and an informed participant in the political process of choosing leaders.