I’ve been thinking again, and I really shouldn’t do that. But, here it goes. What you see and hear presented as news hasn’t been journalistic reporting in years. There’s an old saying, "If it bleeds, it leads," is the way most information is presented today. It doesn’t have to be true or relevant, but it does have to have shock value.
While absolute objectivity is difficult, today’s talking heads unashamedly spew the views of whomever they are trying to impress or from whom they can expect personal gain. And, they have no conscience about trying to make news to make a name for themselves. This is evident in the way we get daily, or hourly, doses of what Trump did in a negative point of view to stir up responses, even riots. Nothing would please the "media" more than a civil war, and they are doing all they can to make it happen.
Meanwhile back at the home front, the majority of Americans are trying to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. While a group of people so small they wouldn’t fill the bleachers of a little league baseball game, gets coverage as if they were the majority in the world.
Where will all this propaganda lead? It could easily lead to war if people let it. Look at ISIS. They are a hand full of radicals that have destroyed a way of life for millions. Hitler, Mussolini, and other like kinds knew that it would take a one way press to accomplish their thirst for power. Today, the media is looked upon by the same mind set Hitler used, as useful idiots.
If it is to stop, it will take a bunch of people to take a peaceful but highly effective approach. Bombard the sponsors of the impersonators with letters and calls demanding an end to the bias or face loss of consumers for their products.
The question is, "Will enough people act before a war begins?"
Letters and calls sure beat dogging bullets.
PMO
©2017
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