perfidy

Murdoc's a bright guy. I know that because I read his blog nearly every day. Today he transcended himself and came up with a profound little condensed nugget of truth. While discussing the 38th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, and the still lingering effects of the stupendously biased reporting on it (we won that battle, in case you don't know) Murdoc closed his discussion with this:

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. One man's Tet is another man's Bulge. It's all in the eye of the beholder, and don't make the mistake of believing that YOU are the beholder. We are usually beholders not of events but of reports, and students not of history but of interpretations. [emphasis mine]

That's exactly right; and surprising in an era where awareness of media bias is growing, that hardly anyone - even on the right - really thinks about that. That sentence should be a caption for every single media report, like a Surgeon General's warning on a pack of smokes.