The first channel I listen to every morning is CNN and I've come to love their "Truth Squad". That's where they'll show clips of politicians making comments or promises and also show clips of those same politicians claiming they never said what they, in fact, had said. CNN will also prove or disprove statements made by politicians about their opponents. This, in my humble opinion, is one of the main reasons we lowly mortals need a free press.
Granted, a lot of the news is skewed to benefit the political views of the reporter and we still have to take whatever is said with a grain of salt but the average person wouldn't have a prayer of knowing what government was up to if it wasn't for the ability of reporters to inform us without being hindered by the people who govern us.
It was funny to watch one politician adamantly claiming she had never made a particular statement and then immediately seeing the clip where she did, indeed, make that statement. We all know that politicians are consummate liars but being faced with the bare facts is still disconcerting. How can any of us trust any of them?
Catching a politician in a lie probably won't have any effect on whether or not she/he is re-elected. Voters seem to be very determined in their choice and tend to close their eyes to the truth. I think that might be a "fear" response. We really don't want to know that the people who govern us aren't worthy of our vote.
Just in case a T.V. news executive reads my blog (LOL!), something I dislike intensely when watching a news report are the lengthy conversations between the reporters yakking and joking about their personal lives. I watch the news to hear the news. The news reporters on my local channel are so irritating that I can't watch it. Just so you know, eh?
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