{"id":3750,"date":"2010-08-20T17:17:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T17:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2010-08-20T17:17:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T17:17:29","slug":"truth_and_an_op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3750","title":{"rendered":"Truth and An Open Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2010\/08\/20\/2415947\/truth-and-an-open-society.html\">Ed Wallace<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In order to be for a democracy, or in our case, a functioning Federal Republic, one has to have an informed electorate. Of course, that is infinitely more difficult than one might think. For even when the raw truth of a story comes to light from unimpeachable sources, it is frightening how the vested interests today will immediately attack the information and the source involved &#8211; in order to lessen the impact of the truth on the public at large &#8211; with frightening speed.<Br><Br>As mentioned in this column, I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time refuting e-mails in which there is no truth to the claim being made, whether it&#8217;s about the Auto Task Force, why the financial system melted down or any other major hot-button issue. On the other hand, I get such e-mailings far more often than I do links to a legitimate news story. Moreover, all too often the e-mail&#8217;s forwarder, who believes completely in the e-mail no matter how outrageous the claims made in it, often point out to me that they no longer read newspapers because of &#8220;known&#8221; bias.<Br><Br><br \/>\nThat is scary. People will trust an unknown and angry blogger &#8211; whose bias screams through his or her words, and who knowingly and intentionally misleads the reader &#8211; before they&#8217;ll trust verifiable facts in the media.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Wallace In order to be for a democracy, or in our case, a functioning Federal Republic, one has to have an informed electorate. Of course, that is infinitely more difficult than one might think. For even when the raw truth of a story comes to light from unimpeachable sources, it is frightening how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,21,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}