Irony of Ironies

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Truth is something hard to neatly package. Something I find increasingly interesting is how media venues such as talk radio and blogs are generally the bastions of conservative opinions. What scares me about bloggers attempting to present genuine news under the banner of greater transparency between the event and the public is that few said bloggers (and talk show hosts, for that matter) have had any professional training in how to present and understand an event. Worse than that, even fewer possess the know-how to differentiate between the subjective and the objective. Perhaps I'm suffering from a momentary inability to remain objective but I just read something on fascist ideology that states "the fight against intellectuals and against the rationalism from which they drew their nourishment was a measure of public safety." This attitude that intelligence is corrupting and that morality is the one true gauge by which to interpret the world is being spewed forth by people comfortably isolated from the world by walls and opinion.