It's time for another rant!!! I think I am ready to
make a pronouncement. A few years ago as I
noticed the media was becoming an organ for the left, part of the
Democratic part, I thought to myself, "At what point will the
newspapers and other mediums become opinion pieces rather than
impartial vehicles of news to the ignorant masses" (that's you and me)?
I decided if reading the front page of a random newspaper and finding
that more than 50% of the articles are opinion that the newspaper is a
partisan opinion sheet. Bad news...we are at that point.
Here's a few examples from U.S.A. Today of how a newspaper gives its
opinion in the form of an alleged impartial news story; "President
Trump's a liar; Now what?", "Why you shouldn't expect much from Social
Security", "James Comey testimony a disaster for Trump", "Trump
supporters concoct their own Comey story". And those a few headlines.
If you read the content of those and other more harmlessly entitled
articles you'll read opinion after opinion, often in the form of an
assumed truth. There often is a false premise on which the story is
based, but that premise is assumed to be true by the author of the
article.
If you look at the headlines I mentioned in the paragraph above they
all are the trendy "I hate Trump and I'll lie about him to convince you
to be mindlessly trendy too" category. Any issue the liberals embrace
and define (often falsely) will be so defined by the media in a
shameless attempt to win favor. The public be damned! That seems to be
the motto of much of the public mediums today. They basically have
decided what truth is and will not allow the real truth to surface in
their publications in an objective way. The biases the media has are
much bigger than even to promote liberalism. They're about getting
ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover
and keeping us in a confused or false state.
The media can be accessed from almost anywhere. In several ways it's
lodged itself in American culture and replaced what once were common
outlets of information. Television and printed words were at one time
the only ways of receiving news. Now a lunatic in pajamas can spew
falsehood and hate on a social media site and be seen by more people in
a day than the total number of people who read a daily newspaper in a
year's time. The development of the endless Internet mixed sources of
information and the expanding accessibility of unchecked information
raises a question; What is the quality of the information we are
getting? The answer is that most of it is damaging to truth and or it
is an attempt to control the minds of the masses.
With cell phones committing a virtual lobotomy on many humans today
it's unlikely many people will notice or understand how they are being
manipulated by the communication they love so much.That is the ultimate irony.
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