Europe had Chicken Little, Russia had Peter and the Wolf, The US has the Main Stream Media

Crying wolf, over reacting, and embellishment have become the ‘IN’ for the main stream media. While it’s no surprise to this blogger that the main stream media isn’t a trusted source of information, it seems to be a huge surprise to the masses who have endured years of exaggerated reporting, fabricated stories, and political pundits who salivate at the opportunity to add their two (non)cents to the “story”.

Hurricane Katrina, The New Orleans fiasco, and Mayor Nagin have revealed the main stream media’s inability to vet out the truth for fear of not being the first to have an exclusive. Images broadcast around the world accompanied by commentary of rapes, murder, death, and disease have fueled lies and misinformation that the main stream media was unable to discern. They have, yet again, shown their inability to report facts but instead incite emotion. The reports were false. The allegations were exaggerated and in a world of 24hr news, the media needs to take responsibility for their so called reporting of the news. Let’s take a walk down memory lane. Let’s go back say…6 years to 1999 and let’s just see how our news sources have informed the pubic on issues that pertain to them.

1999 – The Millennium Bug (the greatest hype in world history)
2000 – The Presidential Election (announcing polls closed and declaring the winner before the election was complete…only to protest the actual outcome)
2001 – 9/11- There are 15,000 dead…no wait, 10,000 dead…no wait 8,000
2002 - Enron destroys economy…no wait the Housing bubble will burst
2003 – NY Times reporter tells the truth, no wait…NY Times reporter resigns after truth is told, no wait…100,000 Iraqis killed by US, no wait… chemical agents were used on US troops, no wait… Saddam isn’t so bad, no wait…
2004 – Kerry is for the war, no wait… Kerry is against the war, no wait…Kerry is a war hero, no wait…Bush is a draft dodger, no wait…
2005 – Koran desecrated at GITMO, no wait…20 murders in the Superdome, no wait, 20 rapes in the Superdome and 10 murders, no wait…thousands dead all over New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, no wait…People are eating the dead in New Orleans, no wait…It’s the Presidents fault, no wait…It’s FEMA’s fault, no wait…It’s the Mayor’s fault, no wait…It’s the Red Cross’ fault…

A trusted source of news our main stream media is not. They are reactionary talking heads who will sensationalize any story for ratings and prestige. The actual act of reporting news is taking place in grass root publications and blogs who look for the story behind the hype that is spoon fed to us on a daily basis. The press has lived under a delusion that they are on the front lines between the government and the people. But, in truth, they have become just as big, just as biased, and just as dysfunctional as any polarized special interest group – only they control the means to communicate to the masses…at least they used to.

Unless, we the people, we the consumer, we the tax payer demand more from our out of touch media pool, we will continue to be fed the misinformation that they propagate for their own business and political gains.

The emperor (media) has been exposed…and the emperor is butt ass naked, drooling, and has absolutely no clue to his surroundings…

Call me crazy, but if you got your news from the crazy naked person standing on a street corner screaming how horrible things are, would you consider yourself an informed citizen? Well if you continue your regiment of daily main stream media you will definitely find yourself swayed by the tirades occurring on the street corners of America’s cities.

BE YE WARNED!
THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA HAS ESCAPED AND THEY ARE SPREADING THE DISEASE OF FEAR, DOUBT, AND PESSIMISM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. ONLY COMMON SENSE AND REASON CAN COUNTER THE INFESTATION BROUGHT ON BY THESE MODERN DAY FABRICATORS, LIERS, AND EMBELLISHERS OF WORLD EVENTS.

AZ