The Media II

There is no real world news on television or even on the radio and very little in magazines or newspapers. If America is directly involved, such as the war in Iraq or one of our embassies gets bombed, or now if the terrorists strike somewhere, they might cover it. We get no news of what is really going on in Asia, Africa, Europe or South America. These things are not titillating enough and do not add to the ratings. Instead we are filled in in depth as to what is happening to Micheal Jackson or Maddona's latest sexual conquest. These are things that should be saved for the entertainment magazine shows, of which there are many, but they feel they have a larger audiencefor the so-called news. These are things that are basically immoral and meant to help bring down American moral standards. Feed enough people enough of this type of trash on what is supposed to be a news program and it will soon become the norm. Business news, which should be important to all of us is another glossed over item on most newscasts. It is either just the market figures or maybe a quick look at some big wheel CEO that just got arrested for doing what the government has been doing for years. Occasionally we get the unemployment or cost of living reports, both of which are lies. At least half of the unemployed are not counted and the two most basic and expensive items; food and fuel, are left out of the cost of living. All in all, the evening news on television is three or four minutes of news and fifteen minutes of feel good, low morals, sexually explicit, ratings making garbage. Then we come to the TV news magazines. Sixty Minutes, Dateline, 20/20 and all of the other clones. When these shows began many years ago, they were rather good and informative. Sixty Minutes started it all and the others followed. The ratings were high, which tells me that the people in America were starved for good hard news coverage. However, something happened to these shows. Apparently being tired of digging into the dry but important news, they turned to doing nature stories, outlandish stories and interviewing some of the more morally depraved stars and sports figures in America. I believe that this is intentional to speed up the dumbing down and morally decaying of America. The talking heads on all of these news and magazine programs are being paid millions to do this. Someone wants things done this way and are willing to pay. The newscasters are either true belivers in fasciunism or they are very greedy, or both.