Trust No One!

When did The News become The News? It seems like every time I check the news, I find several stories that are ABOUT the people who are supposed to be REPORTING the news. Now I understand that if you are reporting the news from a war zone, you stand a chance of becoming a part of the story. But this has happened so often lately that I am starting to get suspicious about the whole News industry in general. First there were the reports of journalists being abducted by insurgents in Iraq. Then we read the reports of their rescue so they can gain enough attention to spew their own anti-US opinion to the world. Other reporters get rescued but the news reports say they were "Freed" by their captors. Then the series of snippets from the inevitable book about the whole deal. A simple check into the past of some of these reporters will show they were anti American before they went to Iraq, so it makes me wonder if there is some other agenda behind their alleged abductions and then being released and all the attention they get for themselves. Last week it was the story of FOX News crew who were abducted, held and finally released on Sunday. That story is ongoing even as a write this because Shepard Smith is replaying an interview with Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig. But as I check the Yahoo Top Stories online right now I see a story about CBS anchor Katie Couric and how they digitally fixed her photo to look thinner. The very next story is about Kyra Phillips, anchor of CNN's "Live From...," and how she left her microphone on while in the Ladies Room during the President's speech so now we all know waaay too much about her personal life. Then there are the stories of how the news photos we a shown may have been digitally altered. So don't believe everything you hear, read or see on the news, or even here for that matter.