DISQUS

Ingrid · 3 years ago

Rogel, as much as I can be opinionated and have my (yesyes) preconceived ideas, I do believe that it helps to read from different sources. (oh btw..I saw something in the WSJ, letters to the editor I believe re. 'objectivism' and thought of you, learned something new there) anyhow.. the problem with divisive situations/conflicts/issues is that somehow, our brain (or whatever you want to call it) translates the 'other' in an all black and white order. The other side is 'bad' and only bad. it sounds simplistic and I have caught myself getting swept into the emotion of some of those conflicts. Then, I started reading some Israeli blogs (just one example really) and yours with your own experiences, and you know (aside from just logical thinking but the emotions have a way of taking away from that) that it is not so.
It is disheartening that made up stories like the one you describe rear their ugly heads. Therefore, it helps to read different publications with their different angles/viewpoints, and somewhere in there, you can at least distinguish the kernels of truth..
Ingrid

Rogel · 3 years ago

One can obviously read many different sources of information and make his own judgment. What I'm after is the fact that news organizations become sensations and entertainment sources rather than news. And in fact they aren't so different one from the other; in the race for rating they all stop report the news.