What is the importance of Truth in our current society?

When you purchase a product at the supermarket, you trust that the people who sell the product aren’t lying to you. Truth telling is essential for authentic communication to occur, and makes genuine interaction between people possible. We live in a world where we communicate based on what people tell us. When we talk to our friends, family teachers and even strangers all we have is what they tell us. We can never truly know if what they are saying is 100 percent true. Another big factor is our news outlet, Internet and radio. We communicate through these and get our information through these people. We depict what we believe to be true and false. Now a days I feel as if people are more concentrated on what gets peoples attention rather then what needs to be heard. They are quick to give stories that get them attention such as Steve. People have become so selfish that all they care about is themselves and how they can advance in life. We see this in politics, in our media and just basically our everyday lives. We watch the news and don’t even know what’s right or wrong because every station has their own agenda. Its sad to see how our society is becoming as a whole and I know that it will only get worse. No one cares about the truth anymore.