Every time I go online there’s a newsfeed I have to bypass to get to my emails, FB, MJ blog site. It’s like written by TMZ or WWE writers!! Here’s a sample :
Trump Turning Heads With Claim ….
Melania Has Wildly Unique Approach to the Role of First Lady
Brady’s Expression Set the Internet Ablaze
Michael Moore Slams Trump on Twitter
Reports Shed Light on Feud in White House
Pence Breaks With Trump
Budweiser Slammed For Ad
So and so lashes out at …..
I dread this part of signing on! I get rid of it quickly, and go on to my business. I’m careful every day re: the reading material that comes across my path. I try to watch what people I hang out with and trust with info. Information is important to me, and I carefully search for material that’s fair and deeply vetted, so I can make up my own mind.
It’s been the ‘in’ thing for years to say The Inquirer is a terrible paper, but my swanky IP from New York sends these daily briefs that are as bad as the ones they condemn! When I see words every day that are written to raise my ire, or demean others, it isn’t funny, it’s sad. It’s really telling how one side of the IP portrays itself as a friendly service to the public, but then turns and gives news coverage that’s so degrading. It’s double-minded.
I’ve always been cautious, even at times bit scared, of people who use derogatory innuendos to intimidate and control others. I understand TMZ and WWE are trying for an ‘effect’ in some crude entertaining way, and I can ‘ugh’ or laugh or not watch them if I want. There are some conservative talk shows that are very abrasive to me, but I’m not a subscriber to their public service, so I stay clear of them. So when I sign onto my internet provider I really don’t like being barraged with tirades of hysteria or paranoia over a President.
I really need a back drop of world and financial affairs to feel balanced and safe in my news source, but my provider doesn’t supply that. Information or morality in a fish bowl really isn’t that appealing or lasting. Every king tries to keep his kingdom together, but a kingdom that only listens to it’s own truth is bound to be defeated.
When I read the crime news coverage of my reporter friend Maxine in Portland, OR, I’m many times enthralled by her telling of a story. I like that she writes news that’s factual, unbiased and a fair representation of all sides of an issue without judgement. I like that she doesn’t disparage people. I don’t want to hear ‘commentary’ unless I turn on a news commentary show. I’m not looking for a news source that only gives me one-sided assumptions about the politics around a President, and can’t look at itself.
A news source is supposed to be run by normal people with a life to live, not an elite group. Art has never saved the world. Intellectuals without fairness are self defeating and boring. Money can’t change the soul. Back several decades ago the books ‘1984′, ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Brave New World’ were hugely popular with the intellectual set. I read them and was in awe of their prophetic relevance re: the future of the West. George Orwell and Aldous Huxley understood how we humans can create something so evil and self defeating in our quest for freedom, relevance. To me, many secular intellectuals or writers have lost their minds and souls cause they’ve forgotten history, forgotten their own purpose. Doublethinking is a term Orwell used to describe men in the future, and he was prophetically describing what we’ve become today in the West.
Thank God for the average man and woman who understands that neither showmanship or celebrity will improve their lot. They don’t need a news service to describe to them what’s going on in someones heart or mind. Marc was so real like that, so above the contemptuous chatter. There’s strength in the ordinary person who can take his own counsel, and who knows God is working in many facets of life we can never know. He knows the right time to defend and the time to prepare.
Bible verse – I Cor 8:9 – But you must be careful so that your freedom does not cause others with a weaker conscience to stumble.
* ‘Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” ― George Orwell, 1984