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Edited on Fri Aug-07-09 06:47 PM by ddeclue
<rant>
The time was when our media would do the right thing and if one person said the earth was flat and another said it was round that they would laugh the flat earthers out of town.
These days it becomes a flat earth - round earth "he said she said" and nobody in the media is ever willing to call "bullshit" on the flat earthers.
There IS an objective truth and it is the ENTIRE purpose of the media to find that truth and expose the liars for lying.
It is NOT their job to offer up a cafeteria of various "truths" and leave it up to uneducated viewers to decide when the choices are this ridiculuous and the lies are so rampant.
Instead of investigating the people behind the reich-wing thugs in the street who are financing their violence and intimidation, the media would rather show us youtube clips because they are visual exciting and don't require any actual journalistic investigation.
Can you imagine how today's cable networks would have covered the Civil Rights movement? They would have given the KKK and "White Citizens Councils" equal footing with the SCLC and NAACP and had talking hats (hoods?) on their cable programs to battle it out in 10 second sound bites followed by youtube footage.
Walter Cronkite and before him Edward R. Murrow had the courage to stand up when it mattered and call bullshit on the liars and the lies - Murrow who called out Joseph McCarthy and Cronkite who called the Vietnam as he, a veteran war reporter, saw it - a hopeless quagmire.
Cable "Newstainment" media, you are not fit to fetch them ink pens and coffee.
I suppose it is better that they are gone now... you would only cause them shame and disappointment.
Shame on you!
</rant>
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