Everybody wants to be right, yet my internal dialog tells me "Be Carful To What You Hear Other People Say As The Truth." My truth, I love this country I live in and the people in our past that created it as a good place of freedom and opportunity. I too want to embrase the right and not the wrong. I will only watch and listen.
2006-10-01 07:10:57 · 7 answers · asked by iraondracek 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
no, you cannot believe what you hear unless you get your information from a seriously wide range of sources, especially looking at news agencies from outside the USA. try al-jazeera in english online.
2006-10-01 07:12:54 · answer #1 · answered by Boring 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, usually the news is truth. But sometimes it is not, look at Dan Rather and how he had to leave CBS. But you have to look at both sides of news stories and develop your own opinion and so on. Generally, we would like to think that the government is correct, however.....we know less than we should from them. Most news is liberally slanted because it is news, and it is meant to show flaws and opinions to let the people decide there beliefs. An example would be the Soviet Union. When it was first formed, as in any Communist country, is the freedom of press. Then the news turns into Propaganda, like when the USSR was in a war with Afganistan, the "newspapers" said everything was great, but people were coming back injured, so it took a while for information to get out. Same with Cheronobyl. People 20 miles away didn't know anything about it until word of mouth came. So yes, news is liberal, but some is also conservative. So make your own opinion.
2006-10-01 09:27:43 · answer #2 · answered by swedishfuji8 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, given the number of lies we've been told by the government and the news, I'd have to say, no, you aren't safe in believing them.
How many lies does someone have to tell you before you stop believing them?
Why "only watch and listen" -- should you not also use the power of your own mind to weigh, to remember, to judge plausibility, and to evaluate what you see and hear against reality?
Watch and listen, but also think.
2006-10-01 08:47:08 · answer #3 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get many sources for your news, even go on the web to foreign news. From that you should be able to conclude what is right and what is wrong as there is a middle someplace that is usually pretty accurate.
2006-10-01 07:15:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Much of the news IS true, you just have to be careful of how it comes packaged. Usually it is marketed, wrapped, and packaged in liberal philosophy and language so you have to learn how to decode it. Thats why I got sick of listening to the liberal spin associated with the news from the mainstream and tune into FOX News now.
2006-10-01 07:40:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the best way, keep your ears and eyes oopen at all times.
2006-10-01 07:15:22 · answer #6 · answered by LadyL 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Think for yourself. Very wise of you.
2006-10-01 07:12:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋