Question of the Day!

Where do I get my news?

Hah. I am often in the dark, seeing my list of current events is often three to five days old.

When I do take breaks from paper, pen, and keyboard, I use them all; I read for five to six hours daily. I predominantly research non-editorialized sources for my writing or someone else I am editing for.

But at least ten minutes of my daily news comes from what most folks call Legacy Media. I pick a subject or event that seems to interest or affect me. Then I dive in, looking for accurate source material, preferably from the "Horse's Mouth" type of site. I have even... when I can find numbers, call the people involved directly, and get answers 20% of the time. ("They" sometimes respond because I beg or brag that I have contributed a few words here and there to Media.com, Facebook, X, ESPN.com, MSNBC.com, Reader's Digest, FoxNews.com, and The Daily Wire.)

Most times, the answers to questions spawned by news sites become beguiling when seen in the more exacting lights of first-hand reports and context.

I have found that the only 100% true statement on the Internet and mainstream media is: "This sentence, in this statement, "There are no 100% true statements in or on any of the daily sources seen by 99.999 percent of the People in America."

The news results become lost in the quagmire when any subject is more complicated than toast. To see the truth of this phenomenon, one only needs to place their order and receive the replying queries, White or Wheat, Light or Dark, Regular or Sour Dough, Buttered or not, and when you think you have covered all possibilities come the always on top on the list, "Do you want, jelly? If you answer, "yes," then follows, "Grape or Strawberry."

So, with issues more confounding than "browned bread," there is little hope of reaching any reasonable consensus on the truth of anything. I find it best to use the age-old idiom: "Don't let the whispers nor shouts twist your panties into a knotty bunch, else it makes it hard for one to stay sitting with their mouth shut.