24 Hour Bad News

I'd like to think I'm not that old but I remember when the news was only on at either 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock. And that was all. Before the news came on, you watched something else. Anything else.

Then in 1980 CNN went on the air as a 24 hour "News" broadcast cable station and now everywhere you look there's "News".

And it's not good news and these days we don't know which of it actually happened or whether most of it is true. Sure, storms really happen. Planes really crash but the other stuff, the subjective stuff, the things that happen in other places, we don't know the half of it and the only word of it we get is through the 24/7/365, never ending news channels.

And we already know they're all full of SHIT.

The local outlets are the worst at trying to fill up their massively expanded schedules. With their vans driving up and down the highways hoping something bad will happen because we all know this "news" has to be BAD.

Bad news is important to the TV executives and it's important to advertisers. The term "If it bleeds, it leads" is now spread across the entire day. If a plane skids off the runway in Singapore or a car hits a tree in Dallas, it's on our local Boston "news", why?

Probably because they have an "insert car crash here every day in this time slot" mandate and if nobody local crashes, they get footage off the wire to fill the spot. I don't really know but I always wonder why I'm hearing about something that happened in California like a car chase or a house fire when they happen on the East coast too but just not that day. There's a lot of time to fill up now so they have to keep the bad "news" coming.

I remember Fox news used to love to broadcast California car chases. That's "news" as entertainment, watching a car chase. Here in New England, car chases suck because there are too many trees to block the camera crew. Car chases happen in Andover, Massachusetts I'm sure, you'll just never see one on television.

Bad News Over and Over

But with all the satellite feeds, the global networks, the broadcasting vans looking for cats caught in the trees, these stations still run out of bad news to hit us over the head with. So what do they do? They REPEAT it over and over, sometimes for three days.

In the Internet world, three days is an eternity to hear the same thing over again. Bad enough you hear it again in an hour but, just in case you somehow missed it, here it is again today. Damn it makes it hard to turn on the radio, I've long ago stopped watching television.

Casting a Pall

What this does, all this bad 'news", is cast bad feelings among the populace. People actually feel the world is going to Hell. The world is not going to Hell. The world is the same as it's ever been. It's always been turning, always there is turmoil somewhere. Just not the same place all the time if you don't count the Middle East. That's a world constant.

But there's always a bad law about to be passed, always a "crisis" to be averted and always someone trying to convince you that unless you go jump through some HOOP, the worst possible outcome will be made real.

But the 24 hour "news" cycle causes preoccupation with what's going on, or at least, what we THINK is going on. I wonder sometimes how information got around back in colonial times. Information traveled slowly and I'm sure was subject to miscommunication and modification.

So the only thing that's changed is the speed of miscommunication and modification.

Why Television Exists

Is it to inform you? It can do that. Is it to educate you? It can do that too. It certainly can entertain you. But the reason it's here is to sell you things.

Beyond all the advertisements, the people who control the media and it's portals want to show you what they want you to see and only what they want you to see. And it's all pretty dumb and contrived. Most of the time, since television was developed, the government and the media were on the same page as to The Message they wanted to send the public. Right now there is a schism and the two are currently split.

Mostly these days the media is selling fear, angst, worry and remorse. Fear of the outside, angst about your well-being and remorse over parts of our history you or your family was never a part of.

It's about "helping" you form ideas and opinions that are of a certain perspective, their perspective. You're told either the truth when if fits, half-truths when it doesn't and outright lies when it suits them. And you have no idea which one you're getting.

Yet people believe it just the same.

Swallowing the Elephant

I never get people who, even though they know that they've been lied to, believe the next thing that the liar says! If someone lies to me once, I tend to have a doubt about the truthfulness of anything they say after that. But that's just me. It's more about how people are inclined to believe "facts" that fit their own opinion about a subject no matter what the source.

We catch a "news" station deliberately distorting the facts and the next day someone says, "Hey, did you hear what's on _____?" Same station. I mean, they're not going to stop broadcasting just because they were caught in a lie.

I don't know if anyone remembers back to 1993 when NBC News, not having success confirming the rumor that the pickup truck GM was making at the time had a problem catching fire in a roll-over accident, actually put a LIGHTED FLAIR on the gas tank and re-did their roll-over test. That worked! The truck finally caught fire.

Of course, the flair showed up rather prominently when General Motors ran the footage in slow-motion.

Oops!

Politics, Politics, Politics

Politics was never far from "news" since the beginning of time. The way certain information is going to be perceived by the Public is always worrisome to those with something to lose.

All news today is political. Why the car crashed, why the storm tore your roof off your house, why your wife left you and why your young kids come home from school and tell you that the number one priority of their lives will be to save the planet.

And whether you think you're a Progressive or a Conservative, you just have to know you're not getting the whole story. The bubble you've built for yourself by only watching certain stations or reading certain publications that back up your thinking to the point where people who risked their very lives to bring you a different sort of news and put it out of reach of the people who don't want you to see it, are ignored.

If the truth should suddenly hit you in the face, would you even know it?

Believe it, don't believe it, that's not the point. The point is that you should have access to it and know it exists.

Something to believe in. 

The Media IS the Enemy of the People!

And it always has been. The difference now is that we know it too.

By conspiring to keep the American public in the dark about the collusion and subterfuge by government organizations on the manufactured issue of Global Climate Warming Change, by looking the other way when illegal immigrants kill American citizens in their homes and on our road ways, by purposely manufacturing crisis at home and abroad to keep you in ignorance and fear, the National Media has done the American Public, the people they are supposed to serve, no service at all. 

Back in the days of 3 television channels, The National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) The Columbia Broadcasting System, (CBS) and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) had a lock on information and they all put out the same “news”.

Back then, the planet was cooling. Yes, getting colder, the future showed that the Earth would be a block of ice, and we worried about it. Back then the government was run by the Good Guys. And these good guys defended the United States from the people we were told were BAD PEOPLE. Countries like China, Russia and Cuba. They were BAD. That's what were were told and are STILL being told. No agenda to follow there, these people were just not LIKE US.

We had guys like Dwight D. Eisenhower saying that we HAD to call off the free and agreed upon elections in Vietnam and instead invade so that the world could have their Tungsten. That’s right, Tungsten. The media was alright with that in the beginning. It took over a decade to change their minds about it. 

The big 3 and the government controlled the narrative and you got what they wanted you to get.

And the media today was alright with Affordable Care Act even though any clear thinking person could see what it was going to do to the economy and here they sat by for 8 years and watched it turn to shit. Not a peep out of the National Leftist Media except an occasional question to the last president, “What’s his name,” about his fucking golf game.

This is what they did not do for you the American People. No “News” outlet sent a camera around to these small towns to see the empty store fronts, the closed factories or the idle people on the dole.

They did NOTHING but glad-talk everything.

Some Past Examples

Remember in 2012 when NBC edited the 911 call that George Zimmerman made to police before he killed Travon Martin in a fight to make him look like he killed the man-child in cold blood? Remember that it was CNN that repeatedly referred to Mr. Zimmerman as a "White Hispanic"?

Who was served by that? Not you and not me.

Or back in 1993 when NBC had to admit that it rigged a Chevy Truck to blow up to "prove" that they were unstable in a crash and prone to explosion. The only problem was they couldn't get the truck to explode! So they had to help it along a bit.

It's because, as former CBS "reporter" Dan Rather said back in 2004 when he got caught peddling a phony story about then President G.W. Bush's military record " The story is true, it's the documents that are fake!" But there is a good reason for that; to the Political Left...

Facts don't matter!  

It wasn't Donald Trump who hurt the National Media's credibility, the reason nobody believes a word out of their mouths is their own doing. The truth would stick in their throats if they ever had the nerve to try to tell it. But they won't try because they can't.

NOT the Free Press

They are not the Free Press, they are the Bought and Paid For Press. Big difference. 

For years they've looked the other way while the moneyed elite made their deals. They went to the parties the bomb-makers threw and the laughed the laugh of people who didn't have to worry about their next paycheck because the were the king-makers, Media Made Men.   

So for far too long we got: "And that's the news. Now shut-up and sit down!"

Enter the Internet!

But now the Internet has changed all that. You don’t need the government to give you the news. You don’t have to listen to or even believe the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to tell you the temperature or a God-Damned Government Agency (GDGA) to tell you that trading Carbon Credits isn’t a fucking swindle or that the government isn’t in bed with the big corporations to keep low wage workers piling into this country so YOU won’t have a pot to piss in.

You don’t have to believe what the Government Media is telling you because what their telling you isn’t true you stupid sheep! Wikileaks has only proven what we all had long expected: That your government was not only lying to you but spying on you intensely to boot! 

So why would you listen when NBC, Reuters, CBS, ABC, CNN or ANY of these bought-and-paid-for PROSTITUTES say that President Trump’s 4 week old administration is in Turmoil? Why would you believe Russian's hacked the election? Why would you believe ANYTHING these people have to say? And just because they continue to have a forum to put their swill out on the airwaves every day over and over even though they themselves know it’s a lie and their doing it for only ONE purpose.

And that’s to keep YOU stupid, in the dark, under-employed, over-taxed, under-educated and out of the fucking American Dream while they and their LORDS hand the wealth of this nation to OTHERS!

So why are you still giving them the time of day? Someone lies to me once and I know it, there isn’t another thing I’m going to believe. Am I alone in this world?

I think not!

Our Media system is broken. Their only real function is supposed to report the truth but they do not. 

They Leftist Media has been caught out as liars and liars they'll be until they stop. 

They have not only let the American people down but have maliciously deceived us time and again. This is reprehensible conduct but now we know it. 

We're onto them.