All over the world the fever of democracy is catching, people in all lands are now fighting for rights on the bills of spilled bloods, here in Africa we are not left behind, the recent upheaval in the Arab world can not be ignored mankind want peace and food. The basics of life can only be there where their is good governance and political stability. When those in power do not use the advantage to crazily amass wealth their families can't finish in a century
With even a casual critical reading of the news, it becomes painfully clear that politicians home and abroad are frequently truth challenged. Across the universal political spectrum, they all lie at times, regularly traversing the region from exaggerations to actual distortion of truth, deceptions and lies by omission stroke submission, to outright false fabrications in grammar and pretense.
The question of political genuineness was recently brought to forefront by the surprisingly unashamed lie the politician tell when they want to forcefully navigate their way into the hearts of their voters, imagine our own president poster carry this slogan
“I promise fresh air if you elect me”
Political advisers are unrepentant, lambasting complaints as being "hysterical". Ironically, this poster’s slogan was itself deceptive. The slogan was opposite of its true meaning we are now reviewing petrol pump price up times five that will surely make the air thicker. So much for the government unnamed strategists.
Without vindicating the politicians themselves, this gloomy state is at least in part traced to journalists. Sifting through the last 30 years of world journalistic articles, we find only a handful of political stories each year that openly characterize a statement by any world leader to be a "lie". The most effective papers of the first world are the worst, they are very apologetic, and many of them managed to muster a bit of interest in issues of back-to-back lies about other blocks interests.
Do you remember the report by the western block journalists in the early eighties that AIDS was transmitted from Africa by African green monkeys?
The vast majority of these "liar" articles cum reports cum news, however, are either opinion or "he said, she said they said" pieces, which do not definitively establish a public statement to be false.
In short, over the past three decades, there are amazingly few instances of reporters in the entire world who independently and explicitly call out deceitful politicians to caution, instead they thought the 'liar' epitaph was rather appropriate for Middle East or African dictators.
With even a casual critical reading of the news, it becomes painfully clear that politicians home and abroad are frequently truth challenged. Across the universal political spectrum, they all lie at times, regularly traversing the region from exaggerations to actual distortion of truth, deceptions and lies by omission stroke submission, to outright false fabrications in grammar and pretense.
The question of political genuineness was recently brought to forefront by the surprisingly unashamed lie the politician tell when they want to forcefully navigate their way into the hearts of their voters, imagine our own president poster carry this slogan
“I promise fresh air if you elect me”
Political advisers are unrepentant, lambasting complaints as being "hysterical". Ironically, this poster’s slogan was itself deceptive. The slogan was opposite of its true meaning we are now reviewing petrol pump price up times five that will surely make the air thicker. So much for the government unnamed strategists.
Without vindicating the politicians themselves, this gloomy state is at least in part traced to journalists. Sifting through the last 30 years of world journalistic articles, we find only a handful of political stories each year that openly characterize a statement by any world leader to be a "lie". The most effective papers of the first world are the worst, they are very apologetic, and many of them managed to muster a bit of interest in issues of back-to-back lies about other blocks interests.
Do you remember the report by the western block journalists in the early eighties that AIDS was transmitted from Africa by African green monkeys?
The vast majority of these "liar" articles cum reports cum news, however, are either opinion or "he said, she said they said" pieces, which do not definitively establish a public statement to be false.
In short, over the past three decades, there are amazingly few instances of reporters in the entire world who independently and explicitly call out deceitful politicians to caution, instead they thought the 'liar' epitaph was rather appropriate for Middle East or African dictators.
