Truth versus Facts

It's interesting that the violent closure of the last anti Turkish Government newspaper, the 'Zaman Daily' has not received much coverage in the western media.

From the Russian point of view it's different, they are out to give the Turks a bloody nose after one of their military aircraft was shot down by the Turks who claimed it had strayed into Turkish air space.

Naturally whether it is reported, or how it is reported is all "politics". Our world is political. The information we are given is controlled as a political decision. And given the artificiality of politics and politicians, it bodes ill for us as we become the chaff in the internet focused  "phantom reality" which we are groomed to believe in.
1984  pre-dates the Internet but mind control was the essence of the book. Information was an artificial commodity strictly controlled to elicit maximum happiness amongst the masses. Keep them distracted and happy whilst "we" get on with our nefarious activities.
Dissembling, falsifying, camouflaging, faking are all adjectives which describe the source of our information if we rely on the traditional inputs such as the professional politician or the media editor who decides what goes out on our screens, a media which unfortunately, has begun to "make the news not just report it". We then are in a poor position to judge whether what we see is good or bad.
It could be argued, is it any of our business to know the truth since in knowing one truth, do we know the other truths which go to make a decision or react in the way "our betters" do.
Certain people know some of the answers of course but the truth is either uncomfortable or it is at odds with their long term plan and no amount of morality could dissuade them from the action they eventually take.
Truth then is a variable and it is only when you drill down sufficiently do you discover the facts.
The football supporter can not see any possibility that his fullback brought down the player in the penalty area until the 'slow mo' camera shows him the incontrovertible  fact that it had happened
It all rests on facts but the facts can hardly be expected to allow for the importance emotion plays, our continual need to know, plays cat and mouse with our preconceived ideas and is one of the reasons that the public at large do not have the patience or the time.
Soon we are to be asked to vote on the important issue of the EU Referendum. With so much apathy due to the misappropriation of facts by the people who visit us in our homes each day unannounced through the TV and who have their own agenda to say what they do then the outcome which ever way it goes, is a fraud !!!