head straight, don't turn

By Todd Stadler · Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:29pm

Of course, what I'd like even more than equally-biased sources is for the media to report the truth.

This is, of course, a difficult thing to ask for, when one's knowledge of the truth is shaped by the same media that appears to be distorting it.

But if it's all the same to everyone else, could we please keep the rah-rah for the blam-blam in Iraq to a nice, intelligent level?

For instance, when a large number of people gather to protest the impending war on Iraq in several cities around the world, can we report it as well as we would a pro-war rally, and not massage or falsify, say the number of people present at the event. This, of course, goes for the protestors as well, who often like to inflate their numbers.

But more importantly, can we at least check the stupid archives before we start revising history, lest we (by which I mean they) contradict the facts reported in the same news source four years ago?

Honestly, what's a boy to think about mass media?