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You've been paying a man to warn you if there are tigers on the main street. Every day for the last 10 years he's been telling you there are no tigers on the main street and you've taken the main street or he's told you there are tigers there and you've taken the side street. Today he said that there was a tiger on the main street but you took it anyway and didn't see the tiger. Has his trustworthiness collapsed or was he always scamming you?

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>and [you] didn't see the tiger

Of course; a tiger keeps hidden and attacks humans from behind.

Jokes aside, your fable is excellent and I hope to use it in the future.

Other than that, I have no useful answer beyond re-iterating my earlier assertion: the media was always bad. Now we can see it better than before.

Perhaps the tiger was a red herring all along. There just might be a fat cat getting fatter in the city hall that we were too distracted to pay attention to.

Does it really matter? It sounds like a philosophical question without any real meaning to me. I can overtake the turtle even though he moves. I can tell that I should not trust this particular man from this point on. It's very easy to lose reputation and very hard to build it.

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