When I was young, I remember George Carlin saying, "I watch CBS all the time, so I can say, F*%$ you, Dan Rather, you facist b@#$%d (or words to that effect!). I remember, as a young, dog-eat-dog Republican, who gleefully voted for Reagan, thinking that Carlin was proof liberals cannot even get their facts straight. Everybody knows the media is liberal, right?
Time and the school of hard knocks has educated me to the view Carlin was onto something. All of the major media outlets are owned by transnationals, and we know where Fox stands, right?
Over the years, I've judged the content of NBC, CBS, and ABC. On the issues of the day, they deliver corporate Amerika's talking points.
NAFTA? The media failed to deliver a balanced report. Gephardt made a cogent attack on NAFTA, which I caught on C-SPAN at midnight. It was not re-aired, referred to, and did not appear in print during the following week. The major media would have had us believe only the unions (commie bastards), Perot (the nuts) and Buchanan (the Brownshirts) were in opposition.
Outsourcing? Portrayed as inevitable, and infers that you are racist if you oppose sending your job to India and China. Just as the Japanese played the racist card on whoever opposed the one-sided trade we had with them in the 80's. Which was played up in the press.
You don't see the media hounding 'Kenny Boy" Lay like they did Martha, do you? How typical to let a woman take the rap.
How do you like this White House deciding we can't see the coffins of our honored dead? I have skin in this game - my cousin is in Iraq, and I pray for him, and his fellow soldiers, every night. I WANT everybody to know the full cost of Bush's "splendid little war" (the sole means he has replicated the deeds of his hero, T.R.).
It'd be amusing, if it weren't so dangerous. This country will never fall to the left. The facists have a decent shot, though.
Time and the school of hard knocks has educated me to the view Carlin was onto something. All of the major media outlets are owned by transnationals, and we know where Fox stands, right?
Over the years, I've judged the content of NBC, CBS, and ABC. On the issues of the day, they deliver corporate Amerika's talking points.
NAFTA? The media failed to deliver a balanced report. Gephardt made a cogent attack on NAFTA, which I caught on C-SPAN at midnight. It was not re-aired, referred to, and did not appear in print during the following week. The major media would have had us believe only the unions (commie bastards), Perot (the nuts) and Buchanan (the Brownshirts) were in opposition.
Outsourcing? Portrayed as inevitable, and infers that you are racist if you oppose sending your job to India and China. Just as the Japanese played the racist card on whoever opposed the one-sided trade we had with them in the 80's. Which was played up in the press.
You don't see the media hounding 'Kenny Boy" Lay like they did Martha, do you? How typical to let a woman take the rap.
How do you like this White House deciding we can't see the coffins of our honored dead? I have skin in this game - my cousin is in Iraq, and I pray for him, and his fellow soldiers, every night. I WANT everybody to know the full cost of Bush's "splendid little war" (the sole means he has replicated the deeds of his hero, T.R.).
It'd be amusing, if it weren't so dangerous. This country will never fall to the left. The facists have a decent shot, though.
