I sometimes listen to a local AM news station during my morning drive to work, primarily for traffic information. I got really amused the other day when their lead story wasn't a story at all, yet they had nothing else so they refused to let it go. They built it up -- "Fire in a Senior Assisted Living High Rise in Dallas". They kept us in suspense. Yet when they finally got to the story, it was nothing. One guy had gone to sleep in a chair with a cigarette that had burned some of the upholstery and made a little smoke. He was fine. There was no evacuation - nothing. But it was their lead story, so they had to make us think something terrible had happened.

Do you know that about the media? They feed on sensationalism and controversy. They want to get you upset AND often they want their message told, whether it's true or not.

Take the Iraq war. All the news about it is bad. Yet those of us who have friends or family members there receive all kinds of reports about the good being done by our troops and other US efforts there. But they can't report on that. It's not "news."

What about candidates? Have you ever noticed how some political candidates get a complete pass by the media, while others are constantly under a microscope.

Listen to me! Do your own thinking! Research what they're telling you from other sources. Get the other side of the story. Media pundits don't care about the truth. They care about readers or viewers and promoting their own agenda.