There is something I want to make absolutely clear after writing this entry a couple of days ago: individualism and individual voices rule. Truth be told, I’ve been feeling sort of uncomfortable about that entry; I’m worried that people now think I want us all to defer to an all-knowing, all seeing mainstream. Of course not! There is a lot that’s fucked up about the mainstream. As Lyn sagely pointed out in her comment, by and large all those companies get their information from a few sources such as Reuters anyway. We should all be reading as widely as possible. While I personally place my trust in and have a preference for the BBC, that does not mean I think it infallible; nor do I use it as my only source of news. You would be a fool to trust any one source completely: the more you read, and the greater variety of sources you read, the greater chance you have of building an accurate picture of what is truly going on. Yet that is not to say we should not be wary of those who lambast the mainstream, as a concept, for their own ends.