Jeanne Meserve......first crack in the media's levee?

[WiseButAngrySara]

There was no masking of emotions on 9/11, but when we responded to the attack by going to war with a country that had nothing to do with the terrorists, the media has become very used to detachment. They can't speak about the elephants in the room, the emperor without clothes, the deaths of innocent Iraqis, our loved ones draped in coffins; they can't allow anything ugly at all to be reported. And they certainly can't report that this entire administration is a pack of lying criminals who profit on the blood of others, and pretend to be Christian. They can't report on the element of human suffering, even though it is precisely this recognition of the suffering of others, and the voice that gives witness to such suffering, that makes us truly human.

So now, after suppression of what is ultimately the most divine element in human beings, and that is compassion, the media is starting to stutter again in the wake of the disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast States. Let's not cover this one up too, with pretty words and denial. Jeanne Meserve on CNN last night cracked into that voice that says 'No, this is a reality that is so incomprehensibly sad, on such a grand catastrophic scale, that it is almost too much to bear.' And her emotions, like the flood, like the leaks in the levee, might wake up our collective consciousness about the inaccurate reporting of the awful tragedy of Iraq, and the consequences it has had on our world.

[linazelle]

1. Dream on...NOLA is "safe" to talk about, Iraq is not. nt

[WiseButAngrySara]

4. "Safe?" Is this why Cindy Sheehan has struck such a chord?...n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. What were Brit Hume's first thoughts?

Brit Hume on the London Bombings:

"I mean, my first thought when I heard -- just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, "Hmmm, time to buy." Others may have thought that as well."

[WiseButAngrySara]

3. He won KO's worst person of the world for that remark.....brutally honest.

He and Cheney would make great 'friends' if they're not already.

[melody]

14. words of a sociopath

They promote their own...small wonder there would be more of them in the media.

[wli]

5. Republicans are genocidal maniacs... that will come out regardless. n/t

[WiseButAngrySara]

6. You really believe that this will come out?......n/t

[wli]

7. Not universally. It sort of already has (e.g. DU figured it out).

The psychotically crazed biblethumping Dominionist and/or Federalist Society Klansmen will never face up to it, of course.

[aaronbees]

8. I really wish it were so...

"...suppression of what is ultimately the most divine element in human beings, and that is compassion..." That is a beautiful and true way to put it. And that's exactly what this country has done. I don't know. There are so many walls built up between this country and the true face of reality ... it still seems so hard to break them down, especially where the media is concerned (I see it every day, believe me). Jeanne Meserve's reporting began to do that and we need more of it, that's for damn sure.

[WiseButAngrySara]

10. We need more of it for sure...but we usually get a pablum substitute

for compassion..look at the constant, seemingly eternal coverage of one young girl on vacation in Aruba, and our media can't even cover the deaths of our own sons and daughters dying in an immoral illegal war! Something is so wrong with that picture, and we are not all of us blind.

[nonconformist]

9. Meserve's reporting has been phenomenal nt

[WiseButAngrySara]

11. Agreed. Let's hope that others will follow........n/t

[Beam Me Up]

12. The corporate owned media are not a friend of we the people.

They are not here to serve us or enlighten us but to serve their boards of directors, their stock holders and their sponsors. And primarily they do so by selling us a false sense of consumerist reality -- a reality that says it is 'OK' to consume the lions share of the Earth's resources -- it is 'OK' to actually invade other countries and take them by force if need be. It's 'OK' to go shopping and not think about the consequences of where your money goes. Worse, it is 'OK' to fabricate and sustain a total fabrication like the 'War on Terrorism' based on a society shocking event like 9/11, about which any genuine suspicions must be suppressed.

These people -- and by 'these people' I mean those who own and work in the corporate media industry, particularly television -- are for the most part soulless automatons with big pearly teeth. They are greedy, shallow talking heads. We know what can be expected from them and none of it is anything truly human or compassionate.

[WiseButAngrySara]

13. They will, and must be held accountable for their collective parts

in this large spin of lies. I think they will eventually be trapped by their own petards, caught like helpless flies in their web of lies. They are as criminally responsible as the BFEE.

They all want their cake, and want to eat it too?

Recipe: Yellow Cake from Niger.