MY TURN: Journalistic integrity versus propaganda
Deborah Rose
Our journey in life can bring us front and center with individuals who seek to injure others, oftentimes being injured individuals themselves. They burden other people with mean-spiritedness, dishonesty and cruelty, sometimes because they’ve yet to heal their own psychological injuries. Such people will present mischaracterizations of others while they present a biased and colored version of reality in general. These individuals lack integrity.
When claiming to be journalists, these impostors want you to believe their biases and deception to be fact-based; the dynamics driving their messages avoids journalistic integrity. While there may be a bit of truth in their message, they are mere bloggers who promote propaganda and bias for fame, attention and financial gain at the expense of the well-being of others.
Integrity is the foundation that allows our nation, our communities and our institutions to thrive and provide needed resources and information. When we believe propaganda and deception is reliable, respect-worthy news, we tear away at the foundation of these entities, and we can end up rejecting the efforts of our true heroes.
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