To the editor:
Polls show that about half of Americans believe President Trump is correct when he says CNN, the New York Times and other mainstream (lamestream) liberal media outlets report fake news. Commentator and bestselling author Andrew Klavan explained it well in a video. See www.prageru.com/videos/what-fake-news. Andrew Klavan said, “Mainstream American news is all fake because the major news outlets are consistently biased toward the left (liberals) that whether any story they report is factual or not their overall reportage is essentially liberal propaganda.” Klavan said, people complain about the conservative Republican slant of Fox News but liberal Democrat slanted television( tell lie vision) ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN have combined about ten times the viewers. Only seven percent of American journalists and reporters identify as Republican. While many news outlets forbid their reporters to donate to candidates, 96 percent of those who donated gave to liberal Hillary Clinton. These liberal journalists and reporters claim despite the fact they’re all Democrats, they can be objective.
Klavan said, “It’s not that these journalists are liars, exactly — it’s that their bias skews their reporting in specific ways.” Klavan said, whenever liberal prejudices are confirmed by a single event that event is treated as representative. However whenever liberal prejudices are contradicted by a single event that event is treated as an isolated incident — and if you treat it as representative, you are labeled hateful. For example a white policeman shoots a black suspect. The mainstream liberal media treats that story as representative of nationwide police racism even though studies show police don’t use deadly force more often on blacks than on whites. If a Muslim commits terrorism and someone points out that the terrorist act is in fact representative of the daily acts of Muslim terror world-wide, this is considered Islamophobic by the liberal media. Islamophobia is a false allegation of prejudice which is used by liberals to silence rational criticism based on actual facts about attitudes and practices within the Islamic world. When Obama in error said, “I’ve visited 57 states,” the media said Obama is tired. When Republican Sara Palin said in error, “We have to stand with our North Korea allies,” the liberal media said she was dumb and unfit to be elected. Klavan said, the liberal media cherry-picks when an event illustrates a larger narrative. That’s fake news. When a scandal breaks on Republicans the news is the scandal. When a scandal breaks on Democrats the news is: who wrongfully disclosed that scandalous information? Bias CNN has a long history of having the mic go dead in interviews when the CNN liberal narrative isn’t being advanced. Black NFL football player Ben Watson was invited by CNN to speak on Ferguson. They must not have known Watson was a Christian. Watson said, “Ultimately the problem is not a skin problem it is a sin problem.” When Watson says, “Jesus died for our sins” his mic went dead. CNN and MSNBC also cut off the mic of people who dared to criticize Hillary Clinton before the election. Brian Williams’ (anchorman for NBC Nightly News) lying cost a lost of trust of reporters and newscasters. No one can completely remove the world view they bring to any story. People must be educated and discerning about the news they consume. Look at different forms of media like Internet, radio and newspaper. To only listen to liberal media is like only having a Toyota dealer tell you about Chevy trucks. There is only one way to get an accurate knowledge of any position. It’s to hear an unedited version of it directly from someone who actually knows and holds that position. Experts say to be able to think and debate positions you have to risk being offensive. Liberals believe they have the right not to be offended. Just because someone says they are offended doesn’t make them right. Christians should exercise their right to free speech while they can and be more concerned with offending God than anyone else.
Trust in the media is at an all time low. We have more fake news than ever before because we have fewer Christians working in the major media and Hollywood than ever before. These people in Hollywood and the major media think that all knowledge begins and ends with them but like Job’s friends are, “darkening counsel with words without knowledge.” Almost none of them correctly predicted that Trump would win. At least 23 of the celebrities said they would leave the country if Trump won but they lied. As Jeremiah asked, “Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have?” Paul writes in Ephesians that people are “darkened in their understanding and ignorant” due to the hardening of their hearts. Romans 1 declares that a nation that rejects God over and over will become vain, useless, futile or foolish in their thinking. Despite claiming to be so wise and so smart the nation will become so foolish in their thinking that they will accept deception, lies and false teaching. So lack of moral clarity can hurt our mental clarity. The Bible in Thessalonians says, “Test (prove) all things; hold fast that which is good.”
There’s only one place to find the truth and nothing but the truth and that’s the Bible. There’s one kind of news that’s completely believable and always true and it’s the good news of Jesus. Jesus is true news. The Bible teaches that the only way to heaven is to have faith in Jesus and His death, burial and resurrection. This will offend some people. “It’s better to offend people into heaven than to flatter people into Hell!”

D.D. Nave
Elizabethton