Integrity in the Media

It's becoming more difficult to trust information coming from TV, magazines, etc. Ideology seems to have more influence than journalistic integrity. I'm beginning to believe that everything I hear, even music and TV shows, has an ideological bent. Recently, I watched a clip from the View, where Rosie O'Donnell wrecklessly threw aspersions at Rudy Guliani for moving the post-9/11 wreckage to quickly to China. The suggestion was that he was trying to cover something up. She was challenged, thank goodness, but it still shocked me that she would say something like that without anything to back it up.

On another clip of the show, she suggested that it was our soldiers in Iraq that were doing all the killing. Somehow she had forgotten that most of the deaths were from rivalling groups and insurgants.

Also, Dr. Dobson of "Focus on Families" was interviewed by a leading reporter who pressed him for his endorsement of a presidential candidate, and specifically if Thompson could be endorsed by Christians in America. The reporter completely spun his answer around to suggest that Dr. Dobson felt he wasn't "Christian enough". Dr. Dobson only suggested that Thompson needed to make a statement one way or another about his faith. It's no wonder that many of us are finding these sources to be less credible and relevant as time goes on.