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Friday, 23 June 2017

How 'Shock Media' Shocks Us Into Desensitization

Source: www.charismanews.com --- Thursday, June 22, 2017
A Tuesday morning on a Baseball field was perhaps the last place a group of Republican congressmen and their staff expected that an angry gunman would show up and change their lives forever. But exactly that happened, and now, a week later, the country is still reeling from the attack and wondering if this is indeed what society has become. Sam Rohrer, president of the American Pastors Network (APN,  www. americanpastorsnetwork.net ), has explored the tragic news on the "Stand in the Gap Today" radio program, which is heard on 425 stations around America. Rohrer also wrote an op-ed for  LifeZette.com  that outlines the state of society in a "shock media" world. "As our society becomes more secular and crass—and as headlines become more and more disturbing, such as the frightening shooting that targeted lawmakers and their aides on a Baseball field in Alexandria, Va.—one of the places it shows up most and surprises us is in the media," Rohrer wrote. "Recently, the Media Research Council published a survey declaring the majority of network television and cable outlets present negative material about the president as much as 90 percent of the time. "The reason reporters 'cook' their stories,'" he continued, "is because they don't want to obey the law or tell the truth. It starts with the fact they have no basis for objective, third-party unchanging standards for judging truth, such as the Bible, upon which our country was founded. ...



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