My brother was hit by a car and almost killed. The local paper reported the story, and got the facts wrong.

Later on, whenever my railroad had a newsworthy event, the reporters got the facts wrong. Writing letters to the reporters was just an exercise in talking to a wall. The reporters were obviously either too lazy or too stupid to handle the facts.

So, nothing new here. Haven’t trusted the media for over fifty years now.

Amen.

In general, ‘sympathy’ is when you share the feelings of another; ’empathy’ is when you understand the feelings of another but do not necessarily share them.

This definition is distinctly different from the others. The others all assume or require that you absolutely share another’s feelings – it seems to me because your capacity to do so reveals the depth of your soul, a la Sense and Sensibility, a modern reading of which might determine that Marianne, not Elinor, is the character to be admired.

Oh, the New Religion has its cardinal virtues. They don’t look very virtuous to me, but they are certainly the way practitioners gain status: being born a certain color or a certain ethnicity, living in cities by birth or by choice, feeling uncomfortable in your own skin, especially in childhood or adolescence, strict adherence to dogma regardless of whom it hurts, stridency and deployment of emotion in argument…

And let’s not forget “empathy.” But only empathy for people you don’t believe are as capable, intelligent, or good as yourself. And not ever sympathy – feeling for someone – but empathy – feeling like someone. Which means that the greatest cardinal virtue is narcissism.

And goodbye to objective journalism. It was nice while it lasted.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-deceptively-edits-reporters-interaction-with-fl-governor-ron-desantis-heres-what-he-really-said

Gallup polled media trust at year’s end, as it has for decades, finding that complete distrust was at the highest levels ever, reaching 31%, if I recall correctly. https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/american-distrust-media-continues-plummet-according-annual-gallup-poll

I’m in that one-third camp. That’s a lot of anyone’s friends and family.

We need our People’s Guillotine Revolution against this Ruling manque of mossbacks and their useful idiots. Only when the Rulers fear the ruled can the People breath free.

https://babylonbee.com/news/60-minutes-renamed-6-minutes-due-to-deceptive-editing-practices

Reportedly, the majority in the UK Parliament continued to support Chamberlain’s pacifistic approach to Hitler until the Nazi’s invaded Poland. To whom Britain had a firm self-defense treaty. So as soon as Germany crossed Poland’s border, England was effectively at war. Surely, some members of Parliament had taken Churchill’s warnings of Hitler’s intent seriously but it wasn’t until reality made the denial of wishful thinking untenable that minds changed. So too with today’s liberals… count on it, reality will arrive in all its brutality.