April 28, 2014
Honestly
Our local paper has
come under fire for being biased and in a recent editorial they tried to
justify their actions saying. “It takes nearly everyone to keep our government
transparent. “[We] … and other media outlets need public support to keep our
representatives open and honest.” Seriously? The print media, who holds the
power of the pen, are asking for public support to do their job. And when, pray
tell, did they appoint themselves to be the honesty-police over others? Certainly the media needs to report the facts
and expose dishonesty, but the implication here is that without them, government
types are not open or honest. Unfortunately, we believers are not immune from
setting ourselves up as judges and juries. “Honest scales and balances are from
the LORD; all the weights in the bag are of his making (Proverbs 16:11 NIV).”
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Gail;
-----”Who’s to say what’s true?” From the first time I heard that question it made me furious, and it still does today. It’s being a rhetorical question is not its bother. Its rhetorical sense being “nobody” is, because that sense somehow is supposed to free the inquisitor from everything except what he wants. If anyone wants to fall into that pit alone, then, more power to them. But the influence of their fallacious rhetoric dragging others with them gets my hackles up.
-----Who’s to say what’s true? Easy. Let’s start with the humble. This is the guy who is not out for the best place there is. He is merely out to understand what is right and be that. Right according to who? The humble knows that right does not need a human “who” knowing it to be what it is. Right is right simply by being right, not by any human knowing it or stating it to be this or that or the other. So the humble seeks what is actually right, regardless of his own schemes and desires, so that he can shape his own schemes and desires by what he finds to be actually right. Maybe the easiest answer to that question then is that the humble person is to say what’s true.
-----I don’t see much humility in the media. This is where they need public support. Of course, I use that term “support” loosely. Over the years I’ve been racking my brain trying to discover how the public could support more humility in the media. But I have never really attempted to gather a public drive towards any conclusions I have reached, because frankly, bricks through studio windows lacks all the humility such would be intended to inspire. Sorry. The arrogance of the media fills me with prolific bother.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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