The MSM in this country is absolutely, and utterly....

[truebrit71]

..completely bloody useless....

I know that this is not new news to anyone here, or anyone with a half-functioning brain, but the more I look at it, the more apparent it becomes that the media in this country is totally out to lunch.

I don't care about Michael Jackson, I don't give a toss if Russell Crowe or Christian Slater got pinched and I REALLY don't give a flying fuck who Angelina Jolie is banging if it isn't me...

I made the heinous error of watching the CBS morning show last week on a day that multiple car bombs went off in Iraq, numerous civilians got wasted and some more G.I.'s bought the farm, and do you know what the lead story was? Yup, Michael fucking Jackson. So I figures, okay maybe because it's getting close to frying that mother-effer I can forgive them, surely Iraq will be the second story...Was it fuck. Nope, the runaway bride and her plea-bargain came in second, look honey, if you don't want to marry him, DON'T FUCKING MARRY HIM BUT GET OFF MY T.V. SCREEN!!!

So I says to myself, Iraq will SURELY be the third story this morning now that those two monumentally important and world-shaping events have been covered ad nauseum, but I was wrong again...it seems that some young, blonde, attractive white female got herself "lost" in Aruba, and that story required no less than three separate reports...

When was Iraq covered?

Fourth. Right before the commercial break. It was an in depth report though...it almost lasted fifteen seconds...

Okay, so now the chicken and the egg question...are the American television audience as dumb as a bag of hammers because the MSM spoon feeds them nothing but mindless shit, or is the MSM spoon-feeding soul-destroying shit to the masses because the American television viewing audience couldn't collectively find their arses with a map and directions?

You tell me because I'm buggered if I know...

Got to go, someone else who didn't win American Idol but DID manage to nail Paula Abdul is coming up.....


...here endeth the rant....

[Dawgs]

1. You got it right man...

enough said!!

[ClassWarrior]

2. Don't aid and abet them by calling them the "MSM"!!

There's nothing "mainstream" about the Corporate Media's sick agenda of greed and manipulation!!

<rant off>

NGU.

[nightfox02]

3. we need to stop blaming the media and take the hit..they are a lost cause

MSM is paid for...

Lets stop bitching about what will never change...

To counter the MSM we need to #1 Grow a spine, #2 Counter with more political activism and our own media the likes of Air America. We need a tv network like foxnews maybe Soros or Buffet could chip in? #3 Realize that the media love conflict, therefore we need to actively OPPOSE the rethuglicans to get any kind of decent media coverage at all.

[cthrumatrix]

4. "control of the mind" keeps people in the illusion.... very important

when you are screwing people

[donco6]

5. I know the evidence seems to say otherwise .. .

but I believe people are way smarter than we give them credit for. They CAN be convinced with sound arguments instead of propaganda, if given the chance, anyway. As much as I wonder if we shouldn't just throw in the towel and let the conflagration commence, I'm not ready to give up.