Morals in reviewing items

Today’s post is a little bit of a rant, but I feel I need to write this down. There is a lack of morals and values in our country. The thing that started this was book reviews I read on an unnamed site. The book I was looking at was the new book by Glenn Beck: Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of America. I was adding it to my list of books I would like to get and notice several negative reviews on the book. So, as a curious person I wanted to see what was negative about the book.

I was shocked to see that all comments as of yesterday at noon, were not comments about the book. These comments were attacks on the author Glenn Beck. These comments were people that probably have no intent on reading the book, but were only out for one motive “defamation of character” towards Glenn Beck. I do not write this just because I have similar views that Mr. Beck has, but I write this because there is a lack of morals and values in America.

When people shop on-line they look to see what the overall rating of a product is and will read through some of the comments. When those that have no morals write false reviews, just because they may not like the author, I believe they need to be reprimanded. If they continue their personal assaults, they should have their accounts revoked. As someone who has received advanced copies of books for review and blogging, this just upsets me. Reviews of any item should be truth on the item and the item only. I would be great for these people to offer apologies, but that will probably never happen.

So if you see these attacks in reviews of items, please report them. We need to stand together for morals.