Introduction

This blog has been a long time coming for me. Through out most days, I normally spend several hours reading news and political commentary. Over the years I've come to realize a few things about the news, foremost of which is that journalism in its pure form is dead. I'm fairly certain that it never existed as it is taught some times, but I can only speak to the last 10 years myself.

The other thing that I have learned is that the reason journalism is dead is because of political narratives. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a political narrative is story that a person or group of people put together to explain the present state of politics, the economy, and life in general. An example of this would be the stated reasons for the economic collapse. The main leftist narrative would state that the cause was unbridled capitalism. Lots of investors made high risk investments that went bad all at once, and if only we had better regulation this never would have happened. The main right wing narrative is that regulation made the banks give out bad loans, and if they had not been pressured to do so this never would have happened. Another important part of each narrative is that the other one is completely wrong.

The problem with these narratives is that they almost never tell the whole story, and that journalists and commentators alike become identified with them. And so only stories that either enforce their narrative, or discredits their opponents narrative are told or discussed. And in this scuffle, the truth is normally left bleeding on the side of the road, as those promoting their narrative sacrifice all logic and reason to promote their side.

The goal of this blog is to take those narratives, and expose their absolute absurdity.

I do have an idea for my first expose, but its getting late, so it will have to wait till tomorrow.