In this hectic world of unknowns, where can we turn for the truth? The harsh reply is? No where really. A friend asked me the other day why the media was so liberal. My reply was... Because reality is liberally bias. I don't consider myself a liberal or a conservative, just somewhere in between. My friend then of course asked for proof that reality is liberal bias. "Simple.", I replied. When a weapons manufacturer sells landmines to a third world country, they sell them cheaper than if it were to an industrialized nation. It isn't some insidious plot to seed the entire third world with landmines. It is just the "liberal bias" of reality.
Am I bias? I don't think so. When you see images of famine, war, and pestilence it isn't the liberal media portraying it in some horrible way. The reality is that those things ARE horrible. What I find bias is the way some things are cleansed for the masses. Take the coverage of the U.S.'s war in Iraq. Aside from very little news of the conflict reaching main stream media, what does reach the masses is sanitized for their consumption. Are there no bullets flying over there? Hardly... U.S. soldiers, insurgents, and civilians are dying daily in the Iraqi conflict. Why are we not hearing about the reality? Because the "liberal bias" has been removed from the equation.
While I have no desire to see blood and gore, I do want the truth. Even if it seems media is liberal bias.
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