A Terrifying State of Things

As I sit here listening to all the new rumblings on NPR I can't help but feel hopeless. Or, was it more like helpless? Luckily, I am not among those who have lost money in the stock market. I am however, forced to deal with the effects of inflation and uncertainty in the consumer market. The next story that catches my wandering attention is the story of forgery and falsifying/tampering with information. A friend of mine made a big deal about a CNN article covering the story about forged voter registration applications (supposedly by a democratic faction)...Yet, just today I heard a story about a republican organization passing out voting ballots to voters where Barack Obama's name was changed to Barack Osama which I see as very childish. There are so many theories, stories, accusations, etcetera flying around. I suppose that goes with the territory but it makes it so difficult to formulate a well-balanced and accurate opinion especially in the shadow of the financial crisis.
So what is one to do then? How do we get the correct information? How do we get information that is unbiased? The funny part about all of the very biased news coverage that is out there is that the first principle of Journalism is supposed to be getting the truth and remaining unbiased. Ha! What a crippling kick politics takes to journalistic ideals. I prefer to stick to KPBS and NPR coverage. While they may be biased sometimes, they at least try to provide lots of fair and balanced news.