we make truth

cnn right now - having the finalish account of what happened in osama's compound - presents as usual this account as fact; they stop at a certain point with the 'sources say,' and they deploy the new animatied reenactment based on the official account. now they ought to be thinking about this because the story has changed radically a number of times as they have gone along. and this does fuel your conspiracy theories or at any rate distrust for msm (which, yes, is my basic source of info). i heard a number of reporters express outrage on some npr show (white house and congressional correspondents, for god's sake) at the very idea that they represent the point of view of the political authorities. yet those authorities' point of view is constantly presented as fact in all these outlets. and then every time they have to backtrack, they evidently don't think again about this posture; they just go right on identifying what a pentagon spokesman says, e.g., as the truth.