Honest Journalism is Dead! - 1

Honest Journalism is Dead! - 1 In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Monday, August 5, 2012 Sean Hannity coined the above sentence. I am thinking of the New York Times and the mainstream media. How else can you explain the Just and Furious, Benghazi, and the IRS scandals? If these occurred during a Republican administration that President would have been out of office many months ago. He or she would have been forced to resign or be impeached by both Republican and Democratic legislators. The mainstream media is unelected, rules and is two-faced. It promotes a leftist agenda and is an evil cover for the Obama presidency. Impeachable lies rule the day. It is like living in a twilight zone. Our nation is on suicide mission. In 1984 and 1988, Pope Benedict XVI had an interesting comment on journalism. [Meditation, July 26, 27 - Co-Workers of the Truth - Ratzinger, 1992, Ignatius Press] "Journalism is meaningful only when it helps us to learn the truth. It can be a genuine calling only when there is a truth that is good. Then it is right and necessary to help this truth to find its proper expression. The fundamental certainly that Good does exist and we are created for it is not an obstacle to the work of the journalist, but rather makes it possible. It must be the first pillar of genuine journalistic ethics." "It is impossible to act rightly without truth. That is why the will to know the truth, seek it humbly and with a readiness to learn it, the world is fragmented into interest groups because profit always depends on the viewpoint of the one acting... what is effective and progressive for society, if it is divorced from the standard of truth, from God, it imperceptibly establishes power as the primary standard of mankind. But truth is superior to human power, it must set the limit and be the standard of all power. Only if it does so can we become free and good. The fact that listening to the truth must precede all our actions means also that the will of God is superior to all our plans and projects. George H. Kubeck, The culture of death hates the truth.