What is what anymore!

First, they said, "Seeing is believing. Don't believe anything until and unless you see it with your very own eyes!" Then it was, "Don't believe everything that you see! The mind can play tricks on you!" They showed two arrows of the same length with one everted ends and the other with inverted ones to prove their point of view. Remember the pool of water when you are stranded on a desert only to realise that you have plunged yourself into a sand dune when you thought you had reached a wadi, an oasis. You knew he meant more than what you heard him say the world is a mirage, a Maya, a smokescreen coordinated by the puppet master.

Then they said that a responsible and noble band of brothers wants to set the record straight. They want to record news as it is, from the field as it happens unbiased. You were promised truth right from the horses' mouth. They wanted history to be written as it should be. You thought you knew everything and you were happy.

Then someone thought that a lie oft repeated becomes the truth. They succeeded in hoodwinking a whole nation to toe the line. Then it was exposed. You thought the truth will always prevail. Goodness is superior to the dark forces of lie and falsity. How naïve you were!

Surprise surprise. The news that you have been ingesting, that you thought not to be anything else but the gospel truth, starts receiving brickbats. People say that their news is skewed to fulfil their paymasters' political agendas. It turns out to be lopsidedly favouring one party over the other. They say their news is fake!

Then yet party decided to churn out news which they claim to be the honest truth only to be debunked by their opponents who claim that the news to trash the fake news to also fake as it turns out. You, as a consumer, stay confused, deciding to mind your business and convince yourself that you are in the age of propaganda. And you are let as confused, not any wiser or smarter than you were before! You only know what others want you to know.