Good point. I try not to be skeptical but with all the bullshit that has passed as fact in my lifetime alone, it is difficult to take anything at face value unless it is a face-to-face interaction. At least in person, I can get a sense of that person's authenticity.

I think we all have a bullshit detector built into us that is semi-reliable, but once it is written in history books or broadcast on the news who really knows the truth.

I remember my first personal experience with newsprint. I was a child at a church dinner and was holding a fork full of spaghetti noodles above my head with my mouth wide open ready to feed myself. A photographer for the local newspaper who was covering the event snapped a photo of me with my mouth wide open.

The picture in the paper only showed me with my mouth wide open. You could not see the pasta I was about to eat. The caption under the photo read something like, "Young boy sings in joy at a local fundraising event." No one was singing. There wasn't even any music there. They just wrote what they wanted to write. This happens all the time.

I have had many experiences since then when my band was covered in the press in different publications and they just make shit up. It's happened to me personally so many times I can't count them and I'm no one important. Imaging what the media does with topics of real consequence.