You wouldn't know by looking at Google News that there is a fucking oil fucking gusher in the GoM!

Right now you have to look VERY HARD to find any BP oil gusher news on Google News:

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn

Isn't something MOMENTOUS about to happen on American Idol, or something similar? Celebrities are SO much more compelling than environmental disasters!

Do you think this is BP's doing? Seems like there is a media blackout on info. Might be that MSM isn't able to report. It is maddening when you have loved ones who are literally dying for any info.

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Google "News" is sort of a quick reference list of What the Aristocratic Rulers of Americcca Want The Plebeians to Focus On.

It is NOT, repeat NOT, to be confused with actual news or journalism or anything besides marketing, PR, and propaganda.

I LIKE looking at Google News because it tells me what new thoughts and false histories the American Subject Populace is being inoculated with. "Today's Pravda" it would be called if our Soviet-like Corporate M$M was serving Communist Ruling Elites instead of Capitalist Ruling Elites, who are pretty much the same people no matter what philosophy they use to justify their plundering the other 99.9% of us.

Thus, I accept Google News for what it is, and use it like the tool it is.

Not to get informed, or to find out what is going on the world, but to see what my fellow Plebeians are being programmed with by their/our Masters.

I feel your pain, but the way to get past it is to understand that Google "News" is no more "News" than the rest of Corporate M$M and the RW Lie Machine it is now fused to.

I LIKE Google News because, in a glance, I can see what Today's Corporate Pravda is without having to watch minutes or even hours of Corporate Cable TV Infoganda/Pravda, which is well known to atrophy the mind in every possible way, making one less intelligent, less conscious, less able to think for one's self, among other detriments.

I am not trying to belittle your very valid feelings, but acceptance might be better here.

Google "News" is nothing of the sort. It is merely one more flickering screen in the False Reality Generator that is the American Media Hologram (kudos to Joe Bageant for coining the term).

It is useful in knowing what our fellow Plebeians are programmed with for that day, when the programming changes, what false histories/RW Lies are being manufactured to justify Today's Corporate Pravda, etc.

AND - Do something like Google the web for the likes of folks like Paolo Freire or Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn and count the references to (Oh the Horror!!!) Socialism/Communism/Marxism which many websites use interchangeably.

Google "News" and googling the web, both go to show that, as Paolo Freire said in The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, there's simply NO substitute for the people at the lowest levels coming together continuously, on a daily basis if possible, to engage in the "praxis" of Liberation: Organizing themselves according to their own principles, to study themselves individually and as a collective, to learn about themselves and learn about their place in the world, in order to respond functionally and effectively for their own purposes.

how the media has created a wave of news cycles that people have acclimatized to. News becomes a form of excitement and entertainment that is meant to titillate and stimulate, perhaps even distract the masses surgically as some have noted.

When something so massively impacting and ecologically destructive has occurred can rapidly fall from the top of the news charts and become "old news" and therefore, be considered boring, that is very telling about our culture and the value and meaning of its flow of information. The short attention span works on TV and for entertainment, but it is a sign of failure when a catastrophe in progress can simply fade from the limelight.

Michale Jackson and O.J. Simpson have had longer news runs, it seems. Ah, now that's really telling.

Fortunately, some are choosing to abandon the conditioning of the Mass Media and break their addiction to the mind massaging waves of television. That's something many find difficult or unimportant, but it is, to me, very effective for starters.

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