Media Wars

Why all the social turmoil of late? Obviously there is a holy war taking place between the left and the right ... highlighted by the media excesses. The left has the broadcast news, some cable channels, most of the print media and a good internet representation. The right has a few cable channels, talk radio and a slice of the internet that the Masters of the Universe allow then to enjoy. Does this seem like a fair fight ... particularly since our education, entertainment and sports systems are also players on the left?

Kind reader, is it possible that this turmoil is a result of this Teutonic shift in how the people are staying informed? No longer do they shuffle out front to pick up their morning newspaper. Instead they go on the internet to watch what actually happened yesterday. They are less and less using someone else, like Walter Cronkite, to tell them “that’s the way it is.” And this is because slowly the realization is spreading that there are other ways that it is.

And so what happens? The left media in particular, seeing their influence waning, become even more strident and biased in their reporting ... trying to hold onto their revenue streams by corralling viewership and readership ... and doing a credible, albeit ultimately losing job.

Why ultimately losing? Simple, kind reader, they too often are not being honest with the American people. All it took was an orange-haired president continually pointing out “fake news” for this realization to begin to sink in. When hoaxes turn out to be hoaxes the scales begin to fall from some perceptive eyes.

The right has not won yet ... but right is right...  and eventually the media, which most closely reports the facts, will win.

For sure, the truth will out.


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Chaff

I am suffering from indignation fatigue due to a overabundance of national outrages … gender pay inequality, the Benghazi scandal, the Koch brothers’ political donations, the IRS’s Tea Party targeting scandal, climate change, the Fast and Furious government gun-running, the release of illegal-immigrant criminals, our botched foreign policy vis-à-vis Russia, the looming federal carbon tax, Obamacare disruptions to our health-care system, the return of school segregation, NSA eavesdropping, President Obama’s selective enforcement of our laws, Iran’s rush to atomic weaponry, the need to increase the minimum wage, Syria’s continued use of chemical weapons, extending unemployment benefits, continued lethargic national employment and economic growth, our refusal to approve the Keystone pipeline … and so on ad infinitum.

Perspicacious readers might have noticed that the above list contains numerous serious scandals of both commission and omission on the part of our current “government.” But every other outrage listed  is, in my opinion, chaff. Just like fighter planes release metallic chaff to confuse the tracking of enemy radar, the Obama administration and their henchmen are working overtime to manufacture news stories of little real consequence in order to crowd out their numerous serious failings. As a result, the public finds it difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff … and Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc. are doing their level best to skate through the governmental carnage they have created.

Now, dear reader, you might take some notice of the placement of such chaff on the evening TV news and in our biased print media … and ignore it. We have many too many serious scandals that are being conveniently buried by all this mostly-manufactured filler.