Truth is the first victim in more than war

Over on Junkk Male RE:view I have had cause to comment already today that the ratings of 'debate' seem more important than actually getting to the truth... or facts.

But then I look at my morning blogs and newsletters and see that is is pretty much across the entire mainstream media estate.

Guardian - Time to stop criticising China - we've already come so far - An interesting position, with perhaps a few flaws worth exploiting. A poster asks what the writers' background is. Fair question. Not saying there is any merit but, how, exactly, does one acquire the status of main, or even 'guest' blogger, and evidently without the possibility of any editorial concern.

Telegraph - Inquiry into television shows funded by ministers - 'Nuff said, shot, edited and served up as...?

You expect government, and indeed any body with an interest to promote, to try all they can, including porkies, to swing their message past us.

But when there is almost no attempt by those media being so used and abused to cut through to the objective cores, and act as informed modertators, they really deserve no more trust than those whose propaganda they carry so willingly and for such dubious ends.

Telegraph - Why is the Home Office funding TV programmes with your money?

Indy - Guy Adams' US Media Diary: The 'scoop' the US papers ignored

Indy - How the Taxpayers' Alliance is making headlines