The Sad State of Today's Media |
Our media has become very good at dishing up sensationalistic problems and ensuring that everyone is well aware of the sad state of affairs in the world. Our media would push treason in the White House to second page if a celebrity car crash had enough gore and a good photo for the front.
To see the mainstream press degrade itself and grovel after meaningless sensationalism to please their advertisers and corporate owners is a sad event. In fact, it could be called negligent. The failure of the mainstream press to protect our democracy is evident - there has been no rallying call to action on issues that need our collective attention today.
The cozy relationship between the power brokers and our media is a scary thing indeed. When the Pentagon requests that media not cover a specific event, I would expect a responsible free press to dig deeper and cover the event even more so. Yet, our media seems to jump when told to jump and rolls over and plays dead when ordered to by our nation’s power brokers.
Today's media was pioneered by The National Inquirer... just the facts and flourish that sell without creating political problems for our advertisers or power brokers.
When media fails to report all of the facts and fails to focus on the real issues, it and every participant with it become a side show - a distraction.
Is the free press still a pillar of democracy?
How was our one-person-one-vote democracy supplanted by a one-dollar-one-vote oligarchy, or worse a corporate police state, without even a single headline?
Is this because the corporate owners of our nation’s media have placed the interests of their advertisers ahead of those of their readers and viewers?
Is it our fault? Are we zombies that have become comfortably numb to the assault of modern media?
How was this nation so easily duped into supporting a war in Iraq when the facts were freely available and ignored, by both the general public and the mainstream media, before 2000+ American boys and girls died there?
Why are people just waking up to the fraud of the Bush Jr. Presidency?
Whatever the reasons, the sad state of today's media and our reaction to it is going to be the undoing of our democracy… or its salvation.
This is not my media. I will not stand for, support or pay for it. And neither should you.
My media owes it to me to focus on the real issues and to cover the news that matters; to investigate not only what happened, but why it happened as well; to provide meaningful facts with adequate objective background information for those facts to be evaluated in perspective.
My media owes me the respect of never "dumbing it down".
Did you hear that editors and producers?
Begin to provide meaningful content and your following will grow. The op/ed sections will blossom with constructive solutions.
And you might just save our country in the process.
To see the mainstream press degrade itself and grovel after meaningless sensationalism to please their advertisers and corporate owners is a sad event. In fact, it could be called negligent. The failure of the mainstream press to protect our democracy is evident - there has been no rallying call to action on issues that need our collective attention today.
The cozy relationship between the power brokers and our media is a scary thing indeed. When the Pentagon requests that media not cover a specific event, I would expect a responsible free press to dig deeper and cover the event even more so. Yet, our media seems to jump when told to jump and rolls over and plays dead when ordered to by our nation’s power brokers.
Today's media was pioneered by The National Inquirer... just the facts and flourish that sell without creating political problems for our advertisers or power brokers.
When media fails to report all of the facts and fails to focus on the real issues, it and every participant with it become a side show - a distraction.
Is the free press still a pillar of democracy?
How was our one-person-one-vote democracy supplanted by a one-dollar-one-vote oligarchy, or worse a corporate police state, without even a single headline?
Is this because the corporate owners of our nation’s media have placed the interests of their advertisers ahead of those of their readers and viewers?
Is it our fault? Are we zombies that have become comfortably numb to the assault of modern media?
How was this nation so easily duped into supporting a war in Iraq when the facts were freely available and ignored, by both the general public and the mainstream media, before 2000+ American boys and girls died there?
Why are people just waking up to the fraud of the Bush Jr. Presidency?
Whatever the reasons, the sad state of today's media and our reaction to it is going to be the undoing of our democracy… or its salvation.
This is not my media. I will not stand for, support or pay for it. And neither should you.
My media owes it to me to focus on the real issues and to cover the news that matters; to investigate not only what happened, but why it happened as well; to provide meaningful facts with adequate objective background information for those facts to be evaluated in perspective.
My media owes me the respect of never "dumbing it down".
Did you hear that editors and producers?
Begin to provide meaningful content and your following will grow. The op/ed sections will blossom with constructive solutions.
And you might just save our country in the process.
posted by Figure it out at
10:22 AM
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