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I am sure many of us have received the chain email cncouraging the rejection of Tommy Hilfiger's clothing due to a "statment" he gave apparently made on the Oprah Winfrey Show saying his clothes were only for rich white people and if he had known that other ethnic groups were going to buy his clothes he wouldn't have made them.

I admit I was one of those eager readers who passed on the email to everyone in my address book and vowed never to look at his clothes again.  The next day another friend sent a reply to everyone who had received the same email as me and politely asked if any of us had botherd to read the whole manuscript on the Oprah Winfrey website before making up our minds.  I am ashamed to say I had not thought it important to see the whole picture.

The same goes for anything else we read in newspapers on-line or watch it on t.v.  We are constantly bombarded with instant update, twitter feeds and instant messages, but how often do we investigate?   The Pope is constantly under attack due to the media picking out only certain information to pass on to us.  The same goes for the judge who let the Lockerbie bomber go home, what was his side of the story?  Going back in time how many of us watched or read the Davinci Code and did not bother to see if it was true or not?

There are always 3 sides to every story: the two defending their point of view and the truth, how often do we look for the truth before giving the verdict?