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It May Be Time To Turn Off The News By: Carol Dunn  |
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 Anyone who saw the ABC sponsored Democratic debate on Wednesday, April 16 is bound to be thinking the same thing, “What the heck was that?” Had it been sponsored by the National Inquirer it would, perhaps have made more sense, but the questions were so trivial and so irrelevant, it seems doubtful that even FOX News could have constructed something so insulting.
But the bad news goes on. Chris Matthews on his MSNBC show Hardball, was proud to announce his big number was 7, that’s how many times Barack Obama showed discontent with the questions he was getting. Well my big number for Chris Matthews is 20. That’s the number of minutes I can bare to watch his news show before I shut it off convinced that once again, he’s not actually going to report any real news.
What has happened to the news? What has happened to the media?
It used to be that the media was the public watchdog. Well? What have you been watching you dogs?
The one thing that the debate did do was completely convince me that the age of honest journalism is completely dead and over. No matter what station you tune to, it’s now the corporate news, reporting on anything but what is important, and no American news outlet is exempt.
It’s time again to report on Iraq, Afghanistan, the housing crisis, the plummeting value of the dollar, the criminal behavior of our representatives (on both sides of the aisle), the trade imbalance, the health care crisis, the eroding of the middle class, our failing school system, the manipulation of the law to benefit the rich, the artificial inflation of oil prices, the scrapping of the Constitution, the terrorist fear mongering, and the manufactured march to war with Iran.
Just where you can go to get accurate news, I don’t know, but it certainly isn’t being delivered by the major networks or the cable outlets. All I can tell you is question everything you’re told, and be cautious believing anything that is reported. As for myself, I’ll tune in occasionally to the BBC, but outside of that, no more American News. Until they actually start doing journalism, I’m flipping over to “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
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