It keeps coming up at our gatherings. "What's the truth?", and "where can you find it?".
My answer is always: you have to read around a subject. Read Left, Right and Middle. Imagine the Venn diagram of those three, and the middle bit is going to be the Truth or thereabouts.
A simple way of saying this: In America, read the New York Times and the New York Post. Watch CNN and Fox. In the U.K. read the Guardian and the Telegraph. Watch BBC and GB News. In Australia read the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian. Watch the ABC and Sky News Australia.
If you're really obsessed, get Ground News, a news aggregation site, for a collection of news from all perspectives.
The latest "What's the Truth?" brouhaha is about the recent bombing attacks at the NYC Mayor's Residence, Gracie Mansion.
This is "The Truth", as far as an reasonable person would agree:
1. There was a demonstration outside the mansion, to "Stop the Islamic takeover of New York". This demonstration was perfectly legal under the 1st Amendment free speech clauses of the United States.
The reason for the anti-islamification theme is that the current mayor, Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim. And a pretty radical one at that.
2. There was a counter protest against those protesting against Mayor Mamdani. This too was perfectly legal.
3. Suddenly two teenagers threw Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, at the first group. The IEDs didn't go off. But if they had people on all sides would have been killed or wounded.
The two teenagers have been arrested. They have admitted they are ISIS members. Which is why they bombed the anti-Islam protesters.
That's the truth of what happened. The Important Truth. Not yet the Full Truth, but enough to know, that's the Important Truth.
Now, here's the thing.
The reporting on CNN and also in the New York Times, made it seem like the bombing was from the anti-Islam protesters, in Group 1, and that they were targeting Mamdani. This is the opposite of the truth.
The reporting on this issue from the Right, from the likes of Fox and Sky News Australia, plus a myriad YouTube sites was far more on point, far more truthful, far more correct and far more honest than any of the reporting on the Left.
That's the TRUTH, right there.
If you only follow the likes of CNN, you don't know the correct story. If you only follow the likes of Fox, you know the story. At the very least: You're much closer to The Truth by watching the horrid, "far-right" Fox, than you are from watching the supposed purveyor of truth, CNN.
I've thought that I might look at the media over the period of Trump 45, from 2016 to 2020. I would guess that, objectively, if you were after getting at what the Truth is, you'd have been better off with Fox than CNN during that time. Not that I'm saying that right now, I'm just thinking that. And also thinking that, of course, it's always better to go for both. Watch both. Read on both sides.
But the concept that -- if you had to choose one cable channel -- it might be Fox that is the better source of *FACTS*, would be total anathema to those on the Left.
But it might be true nonetheless.
The recent NYC terrorist bombing incident is just the most egregious of recent failures of the media on the Left to report the news. The TRUTH.
