Northington Notes

At intervals of about 2 weeks I send an e-mail letter to a private list of readers. Musings and commentary are included with every issue. The writing of 04/15 is below. Anyone wishing to subscribe may do so by sending an e-mail to Jerry@JerryNorthington.com with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

Peace.

Fairness

Fairness is defined as the quality

of being just and unbiased.

Today we hear lots of noise about

"fairness" in the media. In that

world what we see is the presentation

of both sides of any issue in what

may be balanced or even unbiased.

But what we miss by taking this course

is accuracy. What we all should

insist upon is accuracy in our

news media.



To present any issue in an accurate

way demands investigation and factual

reporting. In our media driven

world today there is too often too

little time to allow fact checking or

investigative pursuit. How much more

easy the job when one takes the word

of any two reputed or even

self-proclaimed experts on opposite

sides of any issue.



Even worse is the talking heads of

our news media/entertainment programming.

No one seems to care if or not their

statements are accurate. All is taken

at face value and later presented as

the opposite side of "balanced" reporting.

The world suffers from the spread of

false information through this route.



Real fairness demands facts and truth

be presented in a straightforward manner.

We can no longer allow our media

(or ourselves for that matter) the

continued course of parroting any

statement as though it were fact in

the pursuit of "fairness in the media."

Without truth and honesty in reporting

we face a future of continued decline.

The truth and only the truth will

set us free.



Peace.

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Quote of the week:

If man does find the solution for world peace

it will be the most revolutionary reversal

of his record we have ever known.

--George C. Marshall