Modern Day Bards

A bard is someone like the Brothers Grimm, they tell fairy tales and sometimes sing and dance. Today we don't really have bards, nowadays we have CNN, Fox news, 9 news, 7 news, and every other news station in the world. The difference of course being that a bards story was at least based on truth. Todays news stations tell an incredibly stylised version of reality one that has been spun from a true event but it has been so warped it is unrecognisable from the truth. Media Watch is a show on ABC that points out the various errors that is so often spewed from news networks. It is ironic therefore that Media Watch has made its fair share of mistakes. So this begs the question is any news station reliable? Short answer: no. The long answer involves a rather long rant about todays ethics and modern consumerism and ultimately ends with this answer: no. In short it seems that we have no completely and undeniably reliable news network that relays the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Oh well. We're living in a miraculous time I suppose. Food for thought.