Ask people what upsets them the most these days and they will likely tell you they just don’t know who to trust.
They can’t trust their elected leaders. They can’t trust the news media. They can’t even trust their church (religious leaders, it seems, get caught in as many lies as anyone).
Everything has to be taken with a grain of salt. Skepticism rules the day.
And it must. The ads you see on television are, for the most part, outright lies or pure hype. Political ads abandoned the truth long ago. News? Always a questionable source. Television news is guided by the entertainment divisions of most networks. Just look at all the time they spend hyping their entertainment shows: “Tomorrow, on the early show, meet the latest castoff from survivor.”
So, who can you trust? Only your instincts. Any consumer of information should question any source. Read as much as you can. learn as much as you can about the source. Do they have an agenda? Are they affiliated with any political or philosophical point of view? Do they have an ax to grind?
With enough information, you can — perhaps — learn the truth buried in all the hype.
Or maybe not.