The Mainstream Media

I have the utmost contempt for the so called "free" press
and the mainstream television networks in America today.
When they're not shamelessly regurgitating the governments
pre-approved "facts", they're churning out propaganda by the
truck load, enough to make even Goebbels chuckle with
delight.

They distort, dissemble and obfuscate the truth at every
turn. They profess to be vigilantly searching out and
reporting the truth, when in reality they are working day
and night to suppress it. They gladly sell every man, woman
and child of this country down the river.

They have no honor, and integrity is a word that should
never be associated with them. They defend their bare faced
lies with the vigilance of a true zealot.

If anyone should dare speak against their doctrine, then
those people become the victims of vitriolic and baseless
attacks upon their credibility. If this tactic doesn't work,
then they condemn that persons opinions to the sidelines by
not giving them a chance to air their opinions in print or
on television-that way the general public isn't even aware
that any discord exists.

As bad as the mainstream "newspapers" are, their twin, the
mainstream television networks are as bad if not worse. The
nightly "news" is delivered MTV style, by anchor men and
woman who bear an increasing resemblance to ventriloquist
dummies, replete with their plastic smiles and corny jokes.

Interspersed between the "important news," like the latest
sports scores and weather updates, is the local death toll;
the recipe here is, plenty of graphic pictures of "other"
peoples misery. Everything's designed around holding the
general publics notoriously short attention span until the
commercial break.

A few times a week they will break up the monotony with an
equally banal "investigative report". These groundbreaking
reports are about as surprising and controversial as
catching your kids hand in the cookie jar. In one such
report we vicariously follow the reporter as he tracks a
police detective who keeps sneaking off from work to play
golf. With the deplorable reputation of big city cops in the
U.S., the reporter must of been tripping all over cops on
the take, in order to find one who's only sin was playing
golf!! The news is always wrapped up with a human interest
story, which usually involves a young child and their pet.
This is meant to give us a warm fuzzy feeling.

This kind of pseudo reporting gives some people the
impression that they are well informed, and the news
reporter is really looking out for them, digging deep to
unearth the corruption in the city.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The anchor people
are nothing more than talking "meat puppets"; their strings
can be traced directly back to the White House.

Contrary to popular belief, the crack and cocaine epidemics
are still in kindergarten, compared to the "graduating with
honors" status of television as the drug of choice. Nothing
on this earth is as mind-numbingly inane as watching the
afternoon soaps or talk shows.

The tactic of dumbing down the populace and at the same time
providing a distraction is as old as Caesar. Caesar would
keep the masses' attention misdirected by staging fights
between gladiators and would feed people to lions. These
days it's "Days of Our Lives", "Ricky Lake" and "Baywatch"
to name but a few.

But, as the sayings go, "you can't fool all of the people
all of the time." There is a growing minority that are so
totally disgusted with government abuses of power that they
are distributing information which exposes the
government/mass media lies.

The Internet is the governments biggest adversary, that's
why they so desperately want to censor it. The Internet is a
totally open public forum in which any subject can be
discussed with the safety of anonymity. Despite what the
government would have everyone believe, i.e. that there are
pedophiles lurking everywhere, and that the Internet is
awash with "baseless conspiracy theories".

The fact is, yes, there is pornographic material out there,
just as there is pornographic material in books, magazines,
videos, and on television. As for the baseless conspiracy
theories, the facts are, as I point out in this article, the
history of the U.S. is riddled with heinous crimes committed
by the government against its own citizens.

Even the most cynical lawyer will speak with respect about
the ability of a jury to sort through even the most
complicated case and reach the right verdict. The collective
wisdom of thousands of people's honest opinions, (free from
a
political agenda/ax to grind), all of them open to peer
review and debate, leaves the baseless conspiracies far
behind. It's a fact that most of what was exposed in the ABC
program 20/20, pertaining to government prior knowledge, was
common knowledge on the Internet a year before the program
was aired.