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CHIMPS IN A ZOO CAGE

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By Sheila Samples (about the author)     Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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The reporters-cum-repeaters rounded out the jam-packed 10-day news period either shouting that all destructive weapons in Iraq come from Iran -- or curled up on the nation's sidewalks shrieking in ecstasy about Anna Nicole Smith.

The U.S. media is beneath contempt, and can never redeem itself for the damage it has wrought on this republic by its fawning allegience to a band of crooked, war-mongering fools. By sinking to reading scrubbed-clean White House press releases, by relinquishing all pretences of honesty, values and integrity in order to ingratiate itself to the ravenous corporate beast, its members are little more than "enablers" who cannot remember why they became journalists in the first place.

W.C. Fields once said, "There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." That time is now. Molly Ivins was right -- it's time we hit the streets, beating on pots and pans and take our country back. Our first stop should be at the source of our country's problems -- the shallow and destructive corporate media.

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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

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Another vintage Samples story! by Mary Pitt on Monday, Feb 12, 2007 at 8:22:01 PM
Chimps in a Zoo Cage by Sheila Samples on Monday, Feb 12, 2007 at 9:02:59 PM
You Republicans have created a monster. by Chuck Garner on Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 9:19:07 AM
To diogenes1 by Sheila Samples on Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 3:29:09 PM
I just compared you to Molly... by Chuck Garner on Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 5:39:33 PM
To diogenes1 by Sheila Samples on Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 8:26:37 PM
Sheep? by Chuck Garner on Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 9:47:51 PM
The omitted link by Chuck Garner on Wednesday, Feb 14, 2007 at 2:39:48 PM
To diogenes1 by Sheila Samples on Wednesday, Feb 14, 2007 at 2:55:04 PM

 
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