MEDIA BASHING AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' - Bush, Democrats, Republicans, Impartial Advocates?

I think somebody should do a research project with the media as the subjects. Something along the general lines of determining whether the average IQ of that group rises above that of a stone. . .

Media question put to President Bush re world opinion: did he think his decisions on Iraq had anything to do with the world’s negative opinion of the US?

I think the world’s “negative” opinion of the US, if indeed it exists, which is highly questionable, given the huge number of people in the world benefiting from the US’s largess and actual physical protection, is a direct result of the actions and intent of the media.

Can I be plainer? For years, the media has gotten on its hobby horse and either directly badmouthed the US, its leaders, its customs, its people, its actions, etc., or showcased any fools who wanted to do so for their own personal agendas, without the least consideration for the imperatives in their contract with America – a written contract with the Feds, by the way, that compels them to be “disinterested, impartial reporters of the news.” They are supposed to represent us, and our right to know.

If you contrast today’s media with that of WWII, you will see a striking difference. Today we have a group of “celebrities,” who think that their position in the public eye gives them a right to impose their views on the rest of us – a cloak of righteous invincibility which allows them to toss away any evidence in support of any opposite view and justify it with remarks like those of one of the studio heads when he tried to excuse General ______’s persecutors with the line that “they believed [their false story] so strongly that they just ignored all of the [factual] evidence against it.” Right. As though that was a reasonable remark.

Excuse me while I pick my head up off the floor.

Can you imagine a DA explaining police action to a judge like that? “Uh, your honor, uh, the reason the officers didn’t take the fingerprints off the weapon and compare them to the guy's holding the gun was because they are so sure the wife did it.” “And we are not admitting eyewitness testimony because we want to hang this other guy, and they all say he didn’t do it, see? “

Because the “press” has long since left the building, so to speak, that is – left the impartial standards of reporting far behind, and above them, because I think no one could dispute that they have sunk far below the truth, below ethical standards, below impartiality, and below the factual line of giving the public the amount of actual data, real information necessary to make informed decisions about really important factors in our daily lives – and instead of doing their job have engaged in an incestuous love affair with themselves, their "consultants," their talking heads, their "informants," etc., they have completely lost touch with reality.

The media has created an artificial Red Queen Looking Glass world in which the facts as they create and opine them determine the path of the world, and they are the guiding lights, perhaps the saviours? So they keep steering off course, and the more they disrupt the system, the worse it gets. The major networks, the news networks, and every night the same stories, the same talking heads, the same group – an in-group – all with the same vested interests, all part of the same self-perpetuating system that’s careening like a crazed Rim world, trying to block communication between those of us in the real world and the President, for example. . .

Control is the issue, of course. Control information and you control the populance. Filter information, and keep people upset and on edge. Focus their anxieties and fears, and herd them like sheep.

Isn’t the parallel clear? Henny Penny and Doggy Loggy and who are the others? Can’t you hear what they’re saying?

The sky is falling, the sky is falling. . .

Thank God for the internet, and for those of us who live in the real world. Hey, guys! GUYS! We’re mad as hell, and we ain’t gonna take it any more!

This is an enforcement issue. We the people call for enforcement of the federal laws governing the networks. Maybe a nice big class action suit. What about the Federal Trade Commission - how could they all have the same news on every night without some kind of collusion . . . What about diversity? There's too many media people on TV. . .hmmm.