Misinformation

I thought this was a very interesting article, with some great points.  I believe that a Department of Information would be a great idea, the only bad part is if they get some bad coverage of a story, or wrong facts, then they would instantly lose their credibility, so for that reason I'm not sure if this could be realistic.  The theory of a Department of Information is a great one, I just can't see it realistically happening due to facts that weren't meant to be wrong, but did turn out to be wrong.  A great example of when I was been, and still am "misinformed", is with elections of presidents or senators or any major political positions.  Especially around electioin time, I see non-stop commercials against the other person running.  They have these outlandish and bad commercials that the other person running did this, or did that.  I honestly have no idea what to believe.  Who knows if they are going off of a wrong source, and completley blowing it out of proportion.  If I talk to other people about it or look at forums, then they will say whether or not they believe these accusations, which will also sway my opinion on the matter.  If there could be a Department of Information that could give me cold hard facts without any lies, then that would be very helpful, espeically when it comes to elections.  But like I said before, I don't think it could happen.  If a Department of Information was built and everybody relied on it and said their stories were true, what if they decided to lie about something?  Then everybody would believe that lie. It could be a great idea that took a turn for the worse.