Do you trust your current local news channel. Are they trustworthy and unbiased when it comes to news from your town, city, province/state or country? So many of us are now getting our news information from various social media (Facebook, YouTube, Internet, Twitter, etc.) as an alternative to the news outlets of the past (television, newspaper and radio). I think people are tired of the biased reporting from the old sources and are looking for respectful and realtime news. There was a time when people respected journalists and their reporting. Today – television is BIG BUSINESS. The more viewers you can manage to secure – the more products you can sell, so why bother reporting news that matters or ‘real’ news from around the world. Our current news agencies don’t want the general public to know the truth in terms of what is happening around the world – if news stories don’t make the United States look good, CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBC, etc…will not report it. Whistleblowers have to flee their countries in order to ensure their freedom for exposing the truth, shouldn’t they be treated as heroes for ensuring the truth gets out? Our governments don’t think so.

Seek the truth yourself and don’t let the government take more of your freedoms/rights away. The Canadian government attempted to push their internet surveillance bill by disguising it as a way to ‘protect our children from sexual predators’. Here are some articles regarding the Conservative governments push on Bill C-30 – Protecting Children From Predators Act:

National Post – http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/14/online-surveillance-bill-will-put-electronic-prisoners-bracelet-on-every-canadian/

Huffington Post – http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/02/11/bill-c-30-dead-internet-canada_n_2664458.html

The Toronto Star – http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/02/11/bill-c-30-dead-internet-canada_n_2664458.html

The Globe and Mail – http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/its-child-porn—we-need-bill-c-30/article546885/

Thankfully, this bill did not pass but it is a reminder that we must be vigilant in watching our government to ensure they don’t attempt to pass other such bills without public knowledge.

Don’t believe everything you hear. We have the tools to be able to seek the truth and find different and un-biased resources to verify any bit of news or information. Seek them out and make an informed decision on what you believe to be true.

Here is a YouTube channel the describes itself as follows:

Truthloader is a channel dedicated to finding amazing footage, alternative opinions and to digging deeper into stories than the mainstream media will.
We find the best examples of crowd-sourced video and independent content, then use our expertise to add context and analysis. We bring you news and views that will not get coverage in mainstream news outlets and we connect the dots to show you things they don’t want you to see.
We respond to the stories you’re interested in, so if you’ve got a story you’d love us to get to the bottom of, tweet us, Facebook us, or respond to our videos with a comment – and perhaps check out our reddit.