18-03-2009, 01:51 PM
Damien Lloyd Wrote:It is imperative that those passing the information on to others are 100% accurate and factual. If you get caught in a lie your credibilty is 100% GONE. No matter how much truth preceeds the lie, or follows the lie, that person is a liar and nothing they say can be trusted.
I take slight issue with you on this Damien. Not because I disagree about Alex Jones beuase he has the backing and support to be accurate all the time. But when working alone without the support and, more importantly, without the financial means to be pristine in everything one says, errors and factual mis-statements can and do creep in. It has happened to me more than once. While I, and doubtless many others, have the best intentions in mind, human nature will trick us at times.
An example might suffice. I once wrote a piece about drugs and made reference to Colombia, but because I was under time constraints and, more likely because I'm mildly dyslexic, I spelled Colombia as Columbia. I know the difference between the two but it was just one of those Jack-in-the-Box moments and it wasn't picked up in the revision or the subbing. Later I got an email from someone pointing out the error and making the statement that it had detracted from my credibility because of it. I found this to be an a rather aloof statement to make in view of the general tenor of piece itself.
Working alone in difficult situations with no financial or technical support is far from easy and is something that is often overlooked. If you're a writer or journalist writing in these areas it is imperative to have the honesty to admit and correct errors. Significant uncorrected errors do however cause distrust and quite right so in my opinion.
Just my two cents worth though.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14