After a long hiatus from posting to this Integrity Blog, I am resuming posts to the extent that my time allows. This post may sound like it is political but I assure you it is not. This post is about lack of integrity in journalism.

Bill Moyers, in his special on April 25, 2007, has had the courage and integrity to provide what I believe to be a journalistically responsible exposé of just how out of integrity the mainstream United States press has become. He has has dared to criticize both what others have branded the “liberal” press and the “conservative” press for having abdicated their journalistic responsibility to be discerning in their reporting.

I cannot strongly enough recommend that you set aside the time to watch this profoundly important piece of journalism. The URL to view it is:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
The reporting by both conservatives and liberals prior to and immediately following the invasion of Iraq was drastically and consistently out of integrity with the facts. It made a mockery of the sacred responsibility the press has in a democracy to investigate claims made and to report facts the public needs in order to distinguish between propaganda and truth.
I believe the time has come for the American people to rise up in the most important revolution of our time: an Integrity Revolution. It is time for us to demand that the press stop using “pundits” espousing opposing propaganda spins as a replacement for responsible, balanced, truly investigative journalism.

Pundits debating on television and podcasts may be a form of entertainment for some. But, journalism goes over the line when from journalism into propaganda when news media use pundits as substitutes for having their own reporters uncover and report the very facts that the pundits are in the business of omitting in order to forward their own spin.

It is time for the American people to reclaim their responsibility they have to be discerning instread of being susceptible to being taken in by the powerful propgaganda machines that have replaced responsible government and a responsible media.

It is time for the American people to demand that all news media return to uncovering truth rather than promoting propaganda. It is time for the American people, and American business, to start refusing to patronize or support media outlets whose news departments are out of integrity with their sacred responsibility in a democracy to reveal the facts rather than promulgate propaganda.

Again, I cannot strongly enough recommend that you set aside the time to watch this profoundly important piece of journalism. The URL to view it is:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

While you’re on Bill Moyers’ page, check out Jon Stewart’s insightful comments about the press:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04272007/profile.html

To read more about Discernment, one of the Seven WisePassions of 3D Integrity™, visit the WisePassions™ section of my website:
http://www.willingness.com/sevenwise.html