The media mob

Is the media the Pharisees of our world now? 

How has our society allowed the media to become our moral compass and display the aura that they are perfect?

The power they abuse can ruin someone regardless if charges are true or false.  If it sells air time then it is news worthy, but it is not only the media's fault because the mob yearns for the entertainment of watching someone fail or self-implode.  The media continues to judge people and sway public opinion to that which suits them best in order to gain attention (which sells air time) 
Please read this passage about judging others.  

John 8
   But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.  But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”  Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.  At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.  Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”  “No one, sir,” she said.  “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

If Jesus will not willing to judge this woman then who is better than Him to judge her?  I have been guilty of judging others, I believe it is difficult to refrain from doing so, but that does not make it right and I am getting better at staying away from judging others showing mercy.  It is easy to practice self-mercy and justifying our own mistakes; why do we find it so difficult to forgive others theirs?

“Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

I believe I'll leave judgment to God...I have enough to do today.