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Welcome to Day 1223 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Fake News vs. Good News - Ask Gramps


Wisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.  Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.  Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1223 of our Trek and time for our Philosophy Friday series.  Each Friday, we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy.  As we continue on this trek called life, sometimes we have questions about life, so our Friday trek is a time where we can ‘Ask Gramps.’   Gramps will answer questions that you would like to ask your dad or granddad, but for whatever reason, this is not possible.  No matter how old we are, I know that all of us would like the opportunity to ask dad or gramps questions about life in many areas.

We may mix it up a bit on our Friday episodes, but will strive to keep them down to earth and enjoyable.   If you have any questions that you would like to ask Gramps, please email them to guthrie@wisdom-trek.com

So the question for this week is:

“Hey Gramps,  we are bombarded on a daily basis with news reports that seem to be completely opposite from one another.  Even on the internet, it seems like it is out of hand with a proliferation of conflicting and hostile opinions.  Do you have some wisdom tips to help stay focused on what is true and valuable?
Fake News vs. Good News
The internet and even other broadcast media can be wonderful tools.   It does place a plethora of news, information, and facts at our fingertips.  That said, we really need to be careful that we do not consume too much of the propaganda that is being spewed through traditional news outlets, or the millions of self-appointed experts both on TV and especially on the internet.  It is hard to discern what is truth today, and what is not.  We don’t want to take on the mindset of the fictional character Michael Scott from the popular TV sitcom ‘The Office’ where he said in one episode: “Wikipedia is the best thing ever.  Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.”

As helpful as the Internet can be, we obviously can’t trust everything we read there.  We have to check the sources to make sure the news is reliable.  I caution investing too much time reading, watching, or listening to most news today, because it has never been so obvious that most sources have taken on a certain political and societal viewpoint.  True investigative journalism that is not stemming from a certain ideology seems to become rarer with each news cycle.    When you do invest time in sourcing news, seek out the most reliable sources from both sides of the political and societal spectrum, and then compare the coverage.   You will find that the truth probably lands somewhere in between.  Attempt to find as unbiased coverage as possible, and also try to discern what the worldview is of that news source.  If the worldview is purely secular, they will bend the coverage based on that.  If you can locate a Biblically-based worldview news source, it should line up more with the truth of God’s Word.  If it does not, it is not a Biblically-based worldview, although it may claim to be.   We must not confuse a seemingly conservative patriotic worldview with a Biblical Worldview, they are not the same.

Once you have synthesized the information that you have taken into your mind,