Disenchantment

Early this morning, I posted a comment here that linked you to Mary's blog, FREEDOM EDEN, which in turn should have linked you (if you clicked it)to a copy of the legal brief filed in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. This brief was filed by 36 different news organizations in behalf of Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller, the 2 reporters that are in trouble over their refusal to reveal their sources in the matter of the alledged leak of "classified Information" about Valerie Plame,the wife of Joe Wilson and CIA employee.

I was feeling vindicated over what appears to be proof that I was right all along, that Karl Rove is indeed not guilty of committing a crime. Indeed, I was gleeful. The brief indicates that the media has been knowingly lying to us, the American people, about this matter.

Now, however, I am not feeling so gleeful. This revelation has far reaching and ominous implications for every American, and in turn, every person on the Earth. I am now troubled. Very troubled.

It is the press, the media, that we depend on every day, every hour, to keep us informed about what is happening in our world. Undoubtedly, we must reason that they have lied to us before, but now we seemingly have proof of a vast network of misinformation and partisan propaganda. This goes beyond mere political back biting and subterfuge. This is frightening in it's relation to what it means to us. All of us. How often have they lied to us before? And what have they lied to us about? What major catastrophes have been perpetrated upon us in the effort to assassinate some politicians characters? WHAT HAVE WE DONE?

Most importantly, How can we ever trust the media again?

We have always known that some reporters have used suppositions, innuendo, inferences, half truths, exaggerations, and yes, even blatant lies to further their own personal agendas. But this was a concerted effort.

It no longer matters if Karl Rove leaked information or if he didn't. The scandal over the news media, in general has overshadowed any perceived scandal in the Bush administration. It also overshadows Any perceived scandal in the Clinton administration. For you see? If the media can lie to us about this, they can lie about anything. And we don't have a clue what is true and what is not.

Did the President lead is to war with false information? We don't know. Did Ted Kennedy murder his secretary? We don't know. Did the US put astronauts on the moon? We don't know. Did the Holocaust in Germany really happen? We don't know. Did President Clinton really lie under oath before a grand jury? We don't know.

Is there anything we can know for sure anymore? The only source we have to determine if any of the news we get is true is the media. If we can't trust them, who can we trust?

The press was an honorable profession. Now it's words are of sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. They mean nothing. I am disenchanted. The last bastion of freedom has been compromised. Can we ever regain confidence in them?

We can only hope.

Addendum: Since the revelation that the American news media lies whenever it wants to undermine people and establishments and administrations according to it's own ideologies, don't even try to use media resources to back up your points when responding to my posts, because I will no longer believe them. Unless it is from Fox News, one of the few not on the list of news organizations that made their startling admission in court.