I don't usually like to venture into the world of politics, but after reading an article, The New Pamphleteers, by Alan Wolfe, in the New York Times Sunday book review, I felt I had to say something. Whether one is politically conservative or liberal, there is clearly a major problem, namely the lack of informed thinking. Wolfe claims that most of the works contain, at best, shoddy research, and that information is twisted. OK, so that would be obvious, for truth is the hardest thing to come by. However, what scares me is that we sit here arguing over information, but the reality is none of us truly know what is real and what is fabrication because of the agendas of each side.

There is a second article in the NY Times magazine that attempts to portray this. In, How to make a Guerrilla Documentary, Robert Boynton describes the making of a film about the Fox news network, whose primary goal is to reveal that Fox doesn't provide "fair and balanced" news and maintains a conservative agenda. All I can say is that this would be fairly obvious, but one need remember that the liberal press most likely uses similar tactics.