Why I Quit Most Media
Why I Quit Most Media
Good Morning,
Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
The world around us will not understand, but these truths are to help us keep our hearts right in a troubled world. These eight things should guide our thinking, and therefore, our reading and watching as well.
When the presidential election took place between Biden and Trump, and all the conservative news could talk about was how to rally the conservatives to show up in greater numbers next time, I quit watching. I quit watching conservative news. They had violated simple rules that I expected them to follow – be as honest as you can without an agenda.
When the early covid testing proved to be fraudulent (100% of subjects tested positive), I quit watching their reporting. When the powers that be forbid doctors from prescribing medicine for covid that they had regularly prescribed for other sicknesses, I quit watching or listening to them.
When I saw social media weaponized, where lies and slander flowed like a river, undocumented, unchallenged, and obviously slanted with an agenda, I took myself off all social media.
Why did I quit all these?
Philippians 4:8, “…whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
In order to maintain proper thinking in a world of deceit, I had to stop reading, listening, or watching things or people who had proven themselves to be deceitful. These media outlets, whether conservative or liberal, did not only stretch the truth, but did so with an agenda or intentionally distorted truth with intent to harm.
Social media and the average news team has no more credibility than the old tabloids everyone used to mock. Our world does not use the word gossip anymore because most of the media world thrives on it. No honest person ever took tabloids seriously, and intelligent people had better things to put in their heads, thus avoiding them completely.
I have done this before, but consider the list in that verse:
• true
• honest
• just
• pure
• lovely
• good report
• virtue
• praise
• think on these things.
Now compare that list to the news, social media, and radio. Can they co-habitate? I doubt it, at least not in my world.
When a doctor lied about masks or numbers of deaths, I quit listening to him. When hospitals were paid huge bonuses for caring for anyone with Covid, I stopped believing their reports. Money warped the stats and skewed accurate reports of numbers. When statistics are manipulated about Covid deaths, I quit listening to them. (You know the jokes about the guy with multiple bullet holes but tested positive for Covid and was counted as a Covid death.)
When a political leader starts defending communist or socialist policy, I quit listening to him. The overall problem is more than a mistake, it is an agenda-driven, deceitful ploy to change society. When a president lies about our nation’s roots, I refuse to listen to him the rest of his term in office. The greatness of America, so far, is that you can listen to whomever you wish -or not- we do have a choice. Now, if some liberal leaders had their way, they would sensor all news and be sure it was lining up with their narrative, but for the moment, freedom still lives, and we should enjoy it by reading and listening to whatever we wish. As for me, I have shut off most sources of news.
Psalms 15 has some truths to add to this idea of guarding what we hear.
vs. 1 “LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?”
vs. 2 "He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.”
vs. 3 “He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.”
vs. 4 “In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.”
A passion for holiness, a thirst for truth without an agenda, a longing for biblical principles fills the heart and mind of wise people, but the choice is ours to make.
Pastor