Don't Step in the Media

You turn on the Media, you get Government-Speak; you switch to the Internet and what do you get: Unproven Hatred and Ignorance.
It’s most discouraging….

But what’s a fella to do?

The fact is that most of us with a modicum of gray matter are getting bored with all of the digested and regurgitated crap fed to us by the Media Gurus who think that if we fall into a certain age category, we don’t think.

. It's like we inhabit two separate planets and the media is an extension of the Oval Office. Take the crapola they’re dishing out today:
Rumsfeld is loved by the Chief of Staff who can't say enough good things about him. So either he's a moron or catch him when he's talking to his friends. They don’t really expect that the general is going to admit being a suck up but hey, when your future’s at stake you have to play the game.

Right?

Some people might argue that. They might really ask what about pride and integrity which don’t seem to count for much these days when measured against a pay check.

there are so many lies and misstatements making the rounds that it actually puts your mind to sleep if you listen to half of this crap. Man of the Year? I suspect it will Bush again. My God, what a surprise considering that Time magazine was started by a guy named Luce who was practically in bed with the president.

Someone a while back actually had the collosal gall to write about part of the problem. It was the fact that good reporters are being shut up by their editors who have to gain permission from the "boss" before going forward on a story that may be deemed editorially unfriendly to the White House.

It's called "Into the Buzz Saw..." and it makes you want to scream to everyone, "I can't take it anymore..."
What would the really good reporters and serious news people think?. I'm not talking about Katie Couric the lightweight whose trying to look like Walter Lippmann. She can't hold a candle to any of the Network's once bright lights. It is clear that these people are news readers..

They haven't gone out there, stood on the battlefield and earned their credentials like Don Rather and Walter Cronkite; nor could they keep up with the great staff of CBS Morning News with Robert Trout, Douglas Edwards, Eric Severeid. That was when the news counted.

Now, it's political and when the White House doesn't like what you say they raise the threat level. That's why Aaron Sorkind quit the West Wing: the Government didn’t like it when Sorkind made the democrats look human and smart.

More and more, the news looks like verbal diarrhea with lots of feel good stuff that has little or no relevancy to the emerging world taking up valuable news time. It's a whole different ball game these days with ten companies including Disney telling us what we should believe. Believe that you were fathered by a duck.

The bottom line: It doesn't go down well!...with me or anyone with half a brain.

Trouble is there’s a lot of unfounded hate and inaccurate garbage on the Internet as well… I could never believe that there could be so much bottled up hatred in the world and the so-called liberals may be the most extreme case of all. Anti this; anti that. You ask why and you get "because..." And if doesn't appear in the online encyclopedia you can forget it.



So it gets back to that old saw: Don’t believe 95% of what you see or hear…

It’s the only way to stay sane in a world that has gone crazy.

Les aaron

www.lesaaron.blogspot.com

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