Hurricane Katrina, Bush, & the Media

[Rocky Raab]

Possibly the most exasperating thing about the media is the WAY they lie. They can take100 verifiable facts about an event, and print or air 63 hand-picked ones to make the story come out any way they choose.

If challenged, they can point to those select things and say "every one of those things is true." They're right, but if they had cherry-picked a different set of items, the story would have seemed the opposite.

In Denton's example, here's how they cherry-picked the facts:

800 BYU Students in Rock-Throwing Melee

Completely true. But hardly what happened. Here's the real story:

Handfull of Students Disrupt Water Balloon Party

Drastically different slant, isn't it?

If you ever experience an event that's later reported in the media, I'll bet you have to ask yourself, "Was that reporter at the same event I was?" Because you'll hardly recognize what you saw in the reporter's description. Apply that same disbelief to every news story you see or read. I do.