More than ten years ago, it occured to me that the single biggest problem in this country is . . . . [View All]

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . the media.

They manipulate us. They steer the conversation. They make the news as much as report it. There is no competition. There are no more real journalists. The same story gets told on every news outlet. There is no background. There is only the shaping of American opinion. They have - and have used - the power to elect our leaders. They got george bush elected. They got Barack Obama elected. You have no voice and no say, apart from saying what the media tells you to say.

Barack Obama will, without a shred of a doubt, be reelected. I say this with confidence because of the media's treatment of the repubican candidates.

You know they covered Obama favorably in the run up to 2008.

You know they covered george bush favorably in the run up to 2004.

You know they destroyed Al Gore in the run up to 2000.

You know they cheerled the marches to three wars.

you know they obfuscated the fleecing of the average person's wealth by the powerful.

You know they have, and continue to, failed to report the activities the "shadowy right wing financiers" such as Richard Mellon Sciafe, the Koch brothers, and others whose names are less well known.

You know they have worked to anesthetize the thinking part of the American brain while enhancing that part that adopts and repeats favored points of view.

We talk about how we have to "work to elect progressive candidates" and support those who favor our political points of view. But that is, in so many ways, folly.

The real job is to get an honest media.






And that is a goal that is, for all practical purposes, unachievable in a society constructed as it currently exists.






The only hope is to use the individual media to speak your truth.

Until that gets shut down.