Information and Deformation
Thomas Jefferson wrote that “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper."
Syndicated News 
A recent article in OnePeterFive suggests that zealous reading of the news – which the author implicitly equates to neck-craning as we pass an accident – is dismissed as, at best, a worthless enterprise and as, at worst, a sinful one. In support of his thesis, the author, Dr. Andrew Peach, appeals to St. Thomas Aquinas, whose admonition against curiosity we ought to accept and apply in both our…
