How Many More Lies Will the Media Tell Before We Stop Them?

[Jester_11218]

http://tvnewslies.org/html/what_will_it_take_.html

What will it take?
How Many More Lies Will the Media Tell
Before We Stop Them?
Editor, TvNewsLIES.org - May, 2005

This is why so many good people support this criminal administration. They are good people with bad information!

This is not a matter of bias in the media; it is a matter of deception.

During this, my third year as editor of TvNewsLIES.org, I am stunned by the lack of outrage towards our news media by the people of this country.

How surreal do things have to get before we decide to stop the madness? What level of hypocrisy do our media have to reach before we explode? Are we waiting until there is no option other than taking to the streets to restore control of the airways to the citizens of this country? What is taking place today within our news media is beyond anything a democratic society can withstand. If our democracy is to survive we must no longer permit the assault of lies to continue.

More:
http://tvnewslies.org/html/what_will_it_take_.html

[still_one]

1. until we start and independent new networK

the only thing you can do is boycott the mainstream media. Do not watch or use their services

[rodeodance]

2. this article needs to be media blasted by all of us.

[Jester_11218]

4. You are right!

Do it!
Thanks!

[Gyre]

3. Hassle every journalist you know.

Make them feel the treason, and let them know you blame them and their "profession".

Gyre

[Jester_11218]

12. I hear you!

I hate these people who betray us every day! We should make them frightened to walk the streets!

[jojo54]

5. As long as they are contolled

they will continue to lie.

[rodeodance]

6. here is site for email news sites (some bounce back i have noted)--I

bcc the majority of addresses and only put one in the To line.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/MEDIA_EMAIL_ADDRESSES.htm

[jojo54]

9. Great site

Thx

[Demit]

7. slightly off-topic, but that is one badly designed website.

The sliding bar on the left that follows you as you read and then partially obscures the text? Couldn't finish reading. Plus the writer means to say populace and spells it populous. There's so much to read out there I'm not going to bother with non-professional stuff. Just fyi.

[Jester_11218]

8. Brilliant comment.

Thanks for your helpful comment.

Thanks for taking this viatal message and dismissing it because I am not a web designer and I mispelled one word. Good decision on your part.

Unreal.

[Demit]

10. I am not dismissing the message, and I AM trying to be helpful,

believe it or not. The sliding bar is distracting, and misspelled words (I don't mean typos) aren't professional. I'm sorry, I am not trying to make a gratuitous snark at you. In fact, I would've commented in the website comment section, but when I clicked on the comment link it took me to the BBS forum signup.

I really did mean to make a constructive critique. I'm sorry it offended you.

[Demeter]

11. Those "Good People" Need Some Motivation

Why should your average intellectual dullard care if the media and the government are lying to him? Somehow, it has to matter, to make a difference to him.

What that motivation would be is beyond me. The environment, the economy, the future of his children, the future of his retirement--NOTHING seems to matter to him any more.

Everybody can't be on drugs, can they?

[wiggs]

13. Partial answer

I believe the author is on to something in this excerpt...maybe the reality is more complex than this, but his idea may explain real reluctance by the American public to educate themselves on the issues:

"It would be great if we could just blame it all on a conspiracy, but we cannot. The empire depends on efficacy of big banks, corporations, and governments -- the corporatocracy -- but it is not a conspiracy. The corporatocracy is ourselves -- we make it happen -- which, of course, is why most of us find it difficult to stand up and oppose it. We would rather glimpse conspirators lurking in the shadows, because most of us work for one of those banks, corporations, or governments, or in some way are dependent on them for the goods and services they produce and market.

snip

How do you rise up against a system that appears to provide you with your home and car, food and clothes, electricity and health care -- even when you know that the system also creates a world where 24,000 people starve to death each day and millions more hate you, or at least hate the policies made by representatives you elected? How do you muster the courage to step out of line and challenge concepts you and your neighbors have always accepted as gospel, even when you suspect that the system is ready to self-destruct?"

John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man) goes on to make the analogy that America's founding fathers (many of whom were doing quite well) were faced with the same dilemma and made a choice to risk a lot to set things right.

His book is very important IMO and talks a lot about empire, explaining the reasons for much of what we see out of this administration.

Other factors, I believe, that contribute to the lack of outrage: numbess from repeated outrages; disbelief that an American administration could be so dishonest and greedy; effect of polarization has half the nation happy it belongs to the winning group; media control; lack of compelling opposition voice (Galloway excepted); lack of knowledge of history; a new, dangerous, unspoken policy that the ends justify the means (deception doesn't matter as long as the right side wins); and finally...many probably like the idea of American global empire kicking ass on the rest of the world, no matter what it takes to get there.