April 16, 2014
Code of Ethics
Believers are often tried in the court of public
opinion as our detractors hold us to their idea of a Christian Code of Ethics.
Certainly we often fall short in our walk, but I’m not sure those infractions
deserve the accusation, “And she calls herself a Christian!” Interestingly many
of my college classes have lessons that deal with ethics. For instance, the
code of ethics for the Society of Professional Journalists has four main points
– (1) Seek the truth (2) Minimize harm (3) Act Independently and (4) Be
accountable. With all the bias in the
liberal media I wonder how they might react if someone said to them, “And you
call yourself a journalist!”
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Gail;
-----This “court of public opinion” gives me a laugh. Have you ever wondered how it is conducted? Sometimes a little polling actually takes place. That quells my laughter a bit, but not much. Polls are pretty humorous, too. But think about public opinion. It is what all the people are thinking. But who actually knows what all the people are thinking? Sure enough, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN are going to tell you what everyone is thinking…well…they’re going to insinuate it. They don’t want to be caught red-handed in their lies. They don’t know what everyone is thinking. Nobody knows what everybody else is thinking. We all know what we ourselves are thinking. We might know what the guys around us are thinking, if we’ve been talking about it. But yes! The media is going to tell us all about the verdict as if they know what everybody else thinks! The only reason I laugh is to maintain my sanity until the Lord gets here. He won’t laugh.
-----Now, the sad part of it is that a substantial portion of the people will actually be thinking pretty much the way the media portrays them to be thinking. But this won’t be because they’ve concluded it themselves. It will be because the media presented the first news with an attitude. I don’t really know how to describe it, but the greater part of knowledge is attitude. Our memories work best on what makes us emote most. They’re not just information storehouses. The bigger part of the information our memories serve us is the arrangement our minds have made of it relative to the rest of what we “know”. Those are value and attitudinal nuances the subconscious mind receives from facial expressions and surrounding props quicker and more deeply than we consciously receive the information of a journalist’s words. If you analyze the psychological aspects of most news stories you will find that the greater effort made is to project an attitude about an event rather than to just provide straight-forward information. It works more effectively than the striped sticks Jacob laid in front of Laban’s watering herds. So, it is more like the media reports the way people are to think before they report what they think.
-----Don’t look into yourselves to verify this concept. The fact that you regularly read Gail’s blog is sufficient evidence that you appreciate thinking for yourself. Striped sticks don’t color your judgments. The impeachment of Bill Clinton is better evidence. For months and months the polls showed people believed his sex life was his business, but lying was across the line. After the House impeached him for lying, the media went on a drive to tie the lying to the personal issue of his sex life, making it his business, too. They carried on for a week, then would take a poll. Then they would carry on for another week, then take another poll. They did that several time before the Senate vote, and each poll they took showed the public more and more accepting of his lie as also his personal business. Yipes! Stripes! Bleached up news!
-----You could not be more right about journalism today. Paul told us that the last days would come with all manner of deceit. Everywhere the media is placing the striped sticks before us. And their comrades-in-arms are serving up more and more events useful for attitudinal striping, for instance, O-holi-bama’s tapping a gay bishop for the Whitehouse Easter breakfast prayer. Oh how wonderfully we are to receive that! I would say, “Oh, Lord come quickly!” But I don’t have too. He is. Did you catch that first blood moon?
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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