by Berry Friesen (November 13, 2017)
Turns out it is John Stoner opening this blog, but I'm turning it over to Berry. He had a good letter published in the LNP, Lancaster Newspaper yesterday (Sunday, Nov. 12). It deserves wider circulation--to encourage you to think about the questionable (Berry says failed) coverage we get from the most respected mainstream media, and to ask what your local paper is doing. On Friday I expect to say more about my plans for this blog.
To the Editor:
"Reliable sources," the Nov. 5 Sunday LNP editorial, displayed the arrogance of a media outlet confident it has found a splinter in the eyes of its readership: we just don't trust mainstream outlets enough.
You framed the ever-present problem of media distortion and misinformation ("Remember the Maine" or Gulf of Tonkin anyone?) by a case of media distortion and misinformation in which you have participated: unending hype about how the Russians interfered in our election. One version of this canard after another is run up the flagpole. Each gets shot down by the alternative press, but the mainstream media deeps manufacturing new ones without ever identifying why the prior versions failed.
Please, do you take us for idiots? Don't you think we can see the elephant in the room, even though you never mention it? The "reliable sources" you are selling us did not tell us the truth about any of the crisis points in our world: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Yemen, North Korea. Alternative media sources--the kind you look down on--did tell us the truth.
The editorial proclaims LNP's readiness to "help (us) navigate the incessant bombardment" by unreliable sources. Problem is, on global matters you are an integral part of the bombardment.
Berry Friesen
Manheim Township
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