MEDIA SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTENT

One thing the Internet does and does well is harness the power of the people.
Here's an opportunity to maximize our leverage.
I would suggest that we dupe this letter and send it out over and over again to all the media in the land:

Read it; see if you agree!

Les Aaron
hubmaster


Let’s Put the Media On the Spot



Suggested guideline:

Dear Director of Customer Relations/VP Customer Affairs/Network President

“Would you allow deliberate lies to air on your station/network?

Would you agree to have someone present a point of view
that skewers the truth and you knew it?

Would you openly distort, mislead, confuse or slant
your information so that it confuses the public?

Would you leave out the truth if it didn't support your
point of view?

If you answered three out of the four questions,
with "no" then would you allow us to go to your stockholders
and tell them where you stand on the news and the truth?

Would you sign a document to the extent that lying, deliberate obfuscating, misleading the public was against your charter and your
philosophy of doing business?

If you said "no" to most of the above,
why do you allow the president, the vice president, the chief of staff,
and the secretary of state to present their views on your network
when you know they deliberately reinterpret the truth, slant information, skew it
to their own specific needs and intentionally mislead the viewing or listening public.

You know this and if you allow this, you are complicit!

Why would you lower your personal standard and abuse the privileged conduit to the hearts and minds of American citizens by allowing misstatements, lies, distortions, and deliberate obfuscations to mislead the American people?

Do you remember the lesson of Nixon?

None of his people thought that they had to tell the truth because their
leader didn't. Do you also remember that they all went to jail.

Do you remember what the Constitution has to say? That there is only one rule of law that applies to everyone--including the president?

And that those who violate that compact with the people is an accessory
for enabling it...

Don't be labeled as an Accessory to someone or some institution that
deliberately tells lies and distorts the truth. This puts you in the same
category and labels you as an enabler.

Remember, the truth will ultimately prevail and for enabling mistatements
and deliberate attempts to fool the American people, you can be held accountable.

Mend your ways. It is not too late to change.

Don't become an Accessory to the fact.

Les Aaron