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The main-stream media sucks

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This is a "Letter to the Editor" that I submitted to a couple dozen papers throughout the country to try to inform people on the lack of real journalism in the main-stream media and direct them to some web pages where they might start to find real journalism.

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If you believe that Bush is a Christian then you don’t know George (or Christianity) - he’s a crude foul-mouthed egomaniacal warmonger who authorizes kidnapping and torture. And if you believe that Cheney is a patriot then you don’t know Dick; he intimidated the CIA and lied about "intelligence" to instigate a war of agression against a country that was no threat to anybody..

It’s not surprising that so many people are ignorant as to who these men really are - the corporate controlled mainstream media have never really taken the kid gloves off when reporting on these traitorous criminals.

Except for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, where are today’s courageous journalists on ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN who will expose the lies and crimes against humanity of the war-criminals in the White House? I purposely omit FOX because it’s not a news source, but the propaganda arm of the right wing of the Republican Party.

In the printed media where are today’s counterparts of Woodward and Bernstein? At press conferences the White House press corps behaves more like the President’s friends rather than the outraged agents of the public. Who is there to investigate and report real news rather than simply fluff-up administration press releases? Where is today’s Edward R. Murrow who exposed "tail-gunnerJoe" McCarthey?

To stay informed every citizen should get information every day from American and intrnational sources on the internet. A few places to get started are: http://www.buzzflash.com, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info and http://www.legitgov.org

 

Bob is a retired engineer and lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He contributed significantly to the post-Challenger redesign of the solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle.
He has taught engineering at several universities and was (more...)
 

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Re: "The main-stream media sucks" by Munich on Tuesday, Aug 14, 2007 at 1:20:42 PM
Keith is OK by Charlie L on Wednesday, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:39:22 AM