I am beginning to understand...

[GTurck]

that the media; print and electronic needs and values controversy and conflict above all else; they are addicted to them. As long as they have any audience they will continue down this path of abetting and enabling Karl Rove, George Bush, Dick Cheney, etc in making this country the pariah nation of the 21st century. Like all addicts they can neither be trusted nor allowed to continue their current direction at our expense.
Our institutions have grown so large that the only way to get their attention is to ignore them totally for however long it takes for them to hurt. This is true of every corporation which is abusing us as well, and let's face it the media are both corporations and institutions. We cannot call them the Fourth Estate anymore because they have abdicated their role as reporter of the people's interest. They have become merely the stenographer's of the power elite.
For instance this morning our "local" ABC station gave us a full 15 minutes of every murder and assault around the country and nothing "local" except the violent occurrences. Then they told us a story that they first aired last week. See they have this time to fill. But the bread and butter issues, the economic issues well they are hard to show on film so they don't want to go near the truly important and necessary.
What we must learn again is that there is power in the people; a frightening power. It can be channeled for good or evil. What the power elite fear is the channeled energy for good of all; that's not the outcome they want. They don't want us to all wake up and decide that the past 30 years have been a nightmare and that we must expunge it to become America again.
The energy of the people is kept controlled by the conflict and controversy that the media projects; the fear as most now say it. If we cannot trust what we hear from those who supposedly are listening for us or cannot decide which issue is being presented correctly we will keep watching Extreme Makeover or the latest Survivor and let the power elite have their way.
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"If you want to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln

[But....]

1. Unforturely...

it's partly our fault, we (as a nation, not certain individuals) don't want to deal with the bread and butter issues that would make a democrat goverment work.:cry:

[GTurck]

2. That's true....

and I agree whole-heartedly that if we citizens had been more involved much of this would not have happened, but. It has taken a long time to teach that politics is such a dirty and esoteric activity that only the evil or obsessed would have anything to do with it. Hence we have "independents" (aka swing voters) who think they vote issues but really vote emotion. The lack of knowledge about making policy and governing has become for some a sign of purity. In actuality what we all are dealing with is not the making of policies and governance but a continuous campaign for re-election. That turns even me off of the subject - at times. Again the MSM is part of this problem being the place where we got that education.
:patriot: "A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy." James Madison