Is truth in danger in digital age?

[lizardley]

The Vatican reveals that the Pope’s next Communications day message highlights the need for people, not technology, to drive modern media.
The full text will not be published until next January but the topic comes hot on the heels of the Holy Father’s pointed statements while visiting the UK on the power of the press, particularly the British press.
Lessons need to be learned, especially from the wave of negativity passed of as balanced news coverage prior to the UK Papal visit.
To read more visit: sconews.co.uk/opinion/truth-is-in-danger-in-digital-age-holy-father-says/

 

[Bob_Aliano]

There was a time when the news media actually employed professional journalists, for most media outlets those days are gone. No longer are potential stories checked and rechecked for accuracy, no longer do media outlets make an effort to be unbiased and no longer do the majority of Americans trust most main-stream media outlets.

On the flip side is the Internet, perhaps the most dangerous source of news in existence. Anyone can publish anything on outlets like Face book or You Tube, no truth required, in fact the more scandalous and outrageous the better!

For now I read Fox News, Drudge and CNA, realizing of course that these are conservatively biased but do try to present all sides of every story.

 

[PbloPicasso]

Our over technological world drives me crazy.

 

[Charlotte1776]

In some ways technology has made the truth more accesable because anyone with a computer can access any information at any time. The problem is you have to sort through lies to get to it, and sometimes it’s not clear which is which.

 

[Timothy17]

In some ways technology has made the truth more accesable because anyone with a computer can access any information at any time. The problem is you have to sort through lies to get to it, and sometimes it’s not clear which is which.

Correct.

After a lot of painful experiences using the internet, a general rule of thumb is to check the source and check the content. Beware of assumptions. The more a source document relies on repeating and re-presenting information, the better (less of the author’s view, more of the views of others who may be authorities or experts on a subject). This also helps to reveal the spirit and credibility of the document, because we usually know important or prominent figures by their fruits. If your writing something, consider where your own ideas may have originated from, and don’t assume they are your own. You will be surprised how much we borrow.

Ideas are a lot like viruses. It spreads slowly at first but then like wildfire, and it takes a lot of hard work to determine the origins of the virus. First you have to work backwards to discover the first carrier, then you have to look at the carrier’s environment to discover where the organism came from. We carry and copy a litany of ideas that have been carefully planted into our phyches, and we repeat ideas insinuated to us as if they were our own.

The movie, “Inception,” is very much about this planting of ideas (consider that the movie is placed in the present time - not the future), and the internet demonstrates this overwhelmingly.

Pax,
Tim