Propaganda is free...News, you must pay for..

[SoCalDem]

has anyone else noticed this trend?? In days past, the "news" people would routinely fact-check, and present all possible sides of news events.. Sometimes, it was difficult to determine just how you felt about an issue, or a story, because you had heard many interpretations..

These days, the "news" is so santiized and parsed, that there is little left of it that makes any real sense.. The "fluff" stuff is analyzed six ways to sunday, and the really important items are sometimes viewed as a crawl and never seen again, or referred to obliquely..

The very reason that michael Moore felt compelled to make his movie, or that Joe Wilson had to write his book, is that the people who are RESPONSIBLE for informing the public...have NOT..

They even take a "tone" when they "have" to report about the books or movies or documentaries.. It's a "How DARE they" tone...one that shows they are pissed that ANYONE would dare to criticize their reportage..

This is what it's come to.. The "corporate media" will only report what "serves" them and their stockholders, and if the public wants to know "the other side of the story", they must PAY for it.(and wait for it)..

The things that are being brought out (finally) are all things that SHOULD have been reported AGES ago.. The very MESS that we find ourselves mired in, is a DIRECT RESULT of the various media NOT DOING THEIR JOBS.. If the media had "vetted" Bush, and really explored the issues that were present in 2000, we would NOT be where we are today..

The most ridiculous thing you can see today is when the (so called) news channels limit their "guests" to 15 second soundbytes, and routinely goad them into "pretend fights" with each other.. It is vaguely reminiscent of cock fighting ..

They have no reason to exist, if not to present the "news", yet they never seem to "have the time".. When a 24 hour "news venue" has no time to discuss or present the news, can they really call themselves a "news station"?...

We have all been HAD...big time.. Ken and Barbie (and their little pals) sit in their dreamhouse, and read "stories" to us, while they yuk it up to each other, and we are supposed to accept what they tell us, as fact.. If we complain, we are "unpatriotic" or are "whiners"..

It's only a matter of life and death...liberty or enslavement..

What's the big deal???

[radwriter0555]

1. Very very well stated. Great observations and dead on accurate...

Couldn't agree more...

I guess that's why I turned off the teevee about 2 years ago.

Thank goodness for DU.

[SoCalDem]

2. It is amazing how we "cover" a story, and a WEEK later, I hear

it on CNN.:) We are ahead of the curve :)