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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 468284" data-attributes="member: 4937">Purport being the critical word there.   I don't think many reporters have a great love of the truth.   They have a devotion to ratings, and selling subscriptions, and notorioty, and advancing thier careers.  The truth they pursue is 'the story' and often has little or nothing do to with telling the truth.  The Truth is usually complex and an objective truth is often unpalattable.  The more likely you think it would be that the truth would be something you'd like, the more likely it is that the truth won't be what you expect it to be.   The truth makes people uncomfortable and should be avoided if you want to maintain your audience, a point in which Barbara Walters, Donahue, and Rush Limbaugh are really no different.   What people really want is validation of thier beliefs.  It is far easier to scandalize, sensationalize, and criticize than it is to sell The Truth - much less discover what that truth is in the first place.   And, reporters recieve far more respect from thier collegues when they do these things than when they tell the truth, if only I suspect because it shows their colleagues for the shallow knowledgeless people that they are.(I should say that the main thing that endears Rush to me above Barbara is other journalists hate him.)I'm not even sure that reporters have much devotion to the notion of free speech.   Most I've spoken too or heard seem to think that freedom of speach is a right that belongs exclusively to themselves, and are quite offended when some outsider speaks out - especially to disagree with them.  So, when they defend freedom of speech, what I think they are usually defending is thier own careers.So yes, if you mean Truth as journalists use the word, I'd agree with the Chaotic Nuetral assessment.</blockquote>

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