It's obvious that many Canadians have a hopelessly skewed understanding of the crises in the Middle East and these crises are legion although you would never know it to read our newspapers. Unfortunately our news media are profoundly biased in what and how events and issues from that part of the world are covered. They left all semblance of objectivity in their journo-toilet a long, long time ago.
When I think of CanWest/Global, Bell/Globemedia. the Sun chain and, particularly outfits like the National Post, (today's) Globe & Mail, CTV and Global, I can't help wondering if journalism like that wasn't in Mark Twain's mind when he wrote:
Those who don't read newspapers
are uninformed,
Those who do read newspapers
are misinformed.
I'm kind of thinking that, given those two options, the misinformed are a lot more dangerous than the merely uninformed.
h/t S.L. Clemens
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And not just world or ME issues but the ones here at home as well. So much tawdry, biased reporting, if you can call it that, on everything political.
Clemens, alias Twain, was an extremely insightful man whose wisdom is still revelant today.
Nice quote. Twain is one of the patron saints of a good pamphleteer.
I considered myself 'misinformed' until internet became available.
Mark Twain understood society and human nature quite well.
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