A Liberal Media, huh?

"In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell." - NYT vs. US, Justice Black.

Do you realize that there are about the same number of people who think that the media is Liberal as there are people who think Fox news is a fair and balanced presentation. I say to both groups of people, “Step away from the crack pipe”, because you have been so hopped up on the rock so long you still think Flock of Seagulls is a top 10 band. I am not suggesting that the media is right wing establishment either, in fact the closest description I can come up with for the media is yellow, the color of the coward, and even that is nearly too good a description because to be honest I find them down right treasonous.

A liberal media would have held some opposition to the war in Iraq and possibly even to Afghanistan, but they were not only silent they were complicit in its propagation. Now you may have found an objection piece in the Toledo Blade or something from Seymour Hersh, but as a whole each and every televised media outlet pushed the war in Iraq in the same manner that Nazi rags spewed propaganda after the Riechstag fire in 1933. The cute little screen animations of American flags waving in the corner, screen marquee’s in red, white and blue feeding the American public a simple basic message: “WMD’s are coming to get you!”, over and over again, 24/7, nonstop. The press was happy to sit in White House press briefings and be spoon fed nonsense such as Saddam showering New York in 45 minutes with chemical and nuclear destruction, only to turn around, grab a microphone and get on air and say “America, death is coming for you so be afraid as we have this information from the best of sources, the White House”. What is even worse is that the press all patted themselves on the back for being such good journalist and doing such a fine job and being a service to their country…blah, they should be shot.

Since the advent of Fox news network’s view from the far right, they are able to point at CNN and MSNBC and say… “Look it’s the liberal media, run for your life, unpatriotic traitors!” it is all I can do to keep from laughing to death, as anything more than two degrees away from Nazi propaganda is now considered liberal. Now to show that I am not completely harsh, I will give Fox news credit in one aspect, if they are talking about the Hollywood insider, people in the news (usually an actor), or Tom Cruise jumping on Ophra’s couch as the reasons they are liberal, then I will give them that. Somehow CNN and MSNBC still think that Harrison Ford’s love life constitutes actual news; excuse me while I hurl. I will even go so far as to say I support Fox news as a legitimate point of view that has every right to be heard, and it should, but so should an opposition point of view, and sadly there are none. Do anyone of you recall during the lead up to war in Iraq any news broadcast media stand up and say “This is just wrong”, no there were none, so much for being liberal or having a backbone.

I can almost for the most brief of moments see why the media was in full support of this administration after the events of September 11^th, 2001 as it was a time of confusion, madness, and coming together for the American people in time of tragedy, but that time has come and went. One of the greatest stories of the 21^st century is laying at their feet and yet they are seemingly afraid to touch it, and I am talking about the Downing Street Minutes. This single aspect of this administration should be enough to haul in a good many before a grand jury, yet our supposed liberal media won’t touch it with any vigor. There is an ongoing and expanding spy investigation by the FBI into AIPAC members stealing state secrets from the Pentagon and giving them to Israel, an investigation that leads back to the doorstep of the Vice President of this country, yet only the most scant of mention has ever been given. I remember when America used to shoot spies, now they get better treatment than Tommy Chong. There are several BILLION dollars of missing American tax payer dollars from the Iraqi rebuilding fund that just vanished, yet not a peep from the media. The very borders of this country are so full of leaks and holes that the Chinese national army could march several divisions into northern Montana and no one would even notice. American tax payers are going to have to pay with their own hard earned dollars to compensate Israeli settlers for land that they stole in order for them to give it back. All these things and so many more that it would take me at least a week to list that is never reported by the supposed liberal media.

Now for anyone in the media that is reading this piece, I suggest to you to rethink what it is you consider news and to give the American public a little more credit as not all of us want to watch Hollywood insider with the label of news. You can keep trying to focus the people’s attention away from real news but all it will do is to lower your own ratings as the people are on to your shell game. Like biting the ear of a virgin to distract her, your tactics of diversion are no longer as effective as they once were as people are becoming wise to it. You are either the largest group of traitorous cowards or you are complicit in promulgating the war parties agenda, either way, you are fast becoming insignificant as a viable means of relevant information. The media’s contempt for people as evidence by statements such as these is becoming clearer each day:

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
-- Richard Salent, Former President CBS News.

So I leave this with parting words from the author Herman Hesse: "The more individuals capable of watching the world theater calmly and critically, the less danger of monumental mass stupidities - first of all, wars."

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