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"Harry Hope" |
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20 Dec 2003 02:42:15 PM |
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In memory of the dead and buried stories of the year! |
http://tvnewslies.org/html/epitaph_to_the_tv_news_network.html
AN EPITAPH TO THE TV NEWS NETWORKS
2003 -- A YEAR OF DISGRACE
Jesse - Editor, TvNewsLies.org - 19-December-2003
IN MEMORY OF THE DEAD AND BURIED STORIES OF THE YEAR!
We come to bury 2003 -- not to praise it.
For this was the year of distraction, not news.
It was the year of diversion, not information.
It was the year in which TV "news" became a political tool to promote
a war and protect the secrets of a furtive administration.
It was a year which gave new meaning to the phrase, "No news is good
news."
And it was the year whose passing we will not mourn.
The American news media was once the sentinel of the people, -
fearlessly and relentlessly searching for truth.
Until recently, - families turned on the evening TV news without
apprehension.
This was the way to learn about the events that affected their
community, their nation and their world.
Sometimes the news was good, sometimes it was bad, but for the most
part it was accurate.
For a very long time, we believed most of what we heard on the news.
It was the way to be informed about people and events that impacted
our lives.
Of course there were time fillers.
Of course there was trivia.
We knew that.
But the details of a tragic murder or a sensational criminal trial
were addendums to the news--not its focus.
But all that has changed.
In 2003, viewers learned more about Kobe Bryant’s wardrobe than about
***** Cheney’s secret energy meetings.
They knew more about Scott Peterson’s love affair than about the
Wilson leak.
They knew more about the separation of conjoined twins than about the
real reasons the nation had gone to war.
There was plenty of ‘news,’ but the real stories, the ones that really
mattered were never, ever, told.
The news networks once acted on behalf of the public, not the
government.
They were -- until recently -- a bulwark against those who would
mislead us.
But something happened.
It was slow, and it was gradual, but it happened.
By the time "Operation Iraqi Freedom" became the show of the day, CNN
had morphed broadcast news from a platform for journalism into a
corporate ratings *****.
The rest would follow.
The first Gulf War was absolute proof that war means ratings and
ratings mean money.
War sells, it surely does!
This unique concept, news as a money maker, was something new to the
long established network, and the pressure was on.
The dissemination of news was no longer a public trust provided by FCC
license holders.
Rather, it became a new source of huge revenue.
Money, - the ultimate corrupter, soon succeeded in ensnaring those who
would give us the news.
This change in attitude perverted the concept of journalism in the
broadcast world.
No longer was news just news.
It had to compete for an audience.
It had to sell, excite and titillate.
And it also had to please those who paid the bills.
Surprise, surprise - editorial and journalism professionals did not
have the appropriate background to run a cash cow television show.
They were news people.
News people know news, not ratings.
So out went the journalists and in came the business, advertising and
marketing people.
The once-autonomous news room was now controlled by non news people.
There was a new agenda: money.
News came second; maybe third, maybe it was not even an issue al all.
What was reported and how it was reported had to get an audience or
was not deemed newsworthy.
The demise of news broadcasting had begun, and by 2003, journalism as
we had known it had simply rolled over and died.
Conspiracy theories aside, something is rotten in the world of
broadcast news.
Whatever the motivation, whoever the driving forces, - the results are
frightening.
The "news" networks know that the great majority of Americans turn to
them for information they use to make informative choices.
With that knowledge, the networks proceeded to withhold, distort,
fabricate, and ignore vital information.
In effect, they have created a nation so ill informed that they cannot
see democracy disintegrating in front of them.
They have provided red, white and blue blindfolds for their viewers --
to keep them from seeing where this nation is going.
They do not challenge, they do not investigate, they do not question.
In this craven new world, profit margins are all.
THE BEST OF THE BURIED STORIES
Note: The American press received a dismal ranking of 32nd in the
world for freedom of the press by Reporters Without Borders,
***** Cheney’s Secret Energy Meetings: the stonewalling, the evasions,
the lawsuits, the challenges, the MAPS of Iraqi oilfields.....
The Project for a New American Century: the players now in government,
the Iraqi war plans of 1997, their influence on the Bush Doctrine of
preemption and military domination of the globe.....
The Office of Homeland Security: Bush’s opposition to a cabinet post
of Homeland Security, coming under pressure, then taking the credit,
then doing nothing to make America safer.....
The 9/11 Investigation: the opposition, the stonewalling, the lies
about having no idea planes could be weapons, the cover-up, the
blacked out pages.....
The Protest Against the War: the huge rallies all over the nation and
the world, the real numbers of protesters, their stories, their
reasons.....
The Lies that Led to War: the false claim that Saddam Hussein was a
threat to the US, the false Al-Qaeda connection, the WMD lies, the
lies to the UN.....
The Terrorization of America: The repeated references to "terror" and
"terrorist" by Bush and his entire entourage as a tool to gain support
for war in Iraq and justify the invasion of Iraq.
The Civilian Casualtiesof "Shock and Awe" and its Aftermath: the
numbers of dead Iraqi civilians; the wounded; the maimed; - the order
to stop counting civilian deaths given to the Iraqi Ministry of
Health.
Ahmed Chalabi -- the Real Story: his not having lived in Iraq since
the 1950’s, the tens of millions given to him to foment internal
revolution, his connection to Paul Wolfowitz, the armed thugs he
brought to Iraq, his goals to be in charge.....
Staging the Saddam Statue Drama : the staging of this PR event, using
Chalabi’s armed thugs to pose as elated Iraqi’s.....
The Women of Iraq: How Iraqi women were the most liberated of any in
the Moslem world, how they are now under Shia rule which has taken
their freedoms away, the rapes, the kidnaps, their fear to walk freely
without male escorts.....
The Debacle in Afghanistan: The failure to win the war against the
Taliban once Iraq diverted our military and our funds, the warlords
return, the heroin production that has been revived, the Taliban
revival, the numbers of civilian deaths.....
The Coalition of the Billing: exposing the ridiculously small numbers
of military personnel from the touted 60 nation ‘coalition of the
willing,’ their rewards in contracts, in loans, in aid, in
favoritism.....
Hallibuton and Friends: the granting of unbid contracts, the
‘deferred’ payments yearly to ***** Cheney, the failure of school
rebuilding, the profiteering.....
The Military Dead and Wounded: the real numbers, those dying in
hospitals, the numbers of injured and severity of wounds; the
suicides, the "non hostile gunshot deaths," the accidents.....
Impeachment: distorting intelligence information as grounds for
impeachment, the statements of John Dean of Watergate notoriety,
petitions calling for impeachment of George Bush.....
Bush and the World Community: how he has to travel with hundreds to
protect him in every country of the world, how he has to be kept away
from the people, the protests against Bush wherever he travels, how he
could not even visit with the people of the country he claimed to
"liberate" -- on Thanksgiving.....
The Wilson Leak: the criminal outing of a CIA operative by someone in
the White House, the Novak connection, the six week silence by the
President, the refusal to appoint an impartial investigator, the
silence.....
Is it any wonder that George W. Bush’s approval rating is even in
double digits?
If the people only knew!
2003
Rest in Peace.
Not in War.
Not in Lies.
Not in Bias.
Rest in Peace.
May 2004 Bring Truth to the People
TvNewsLies.org
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Harry
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| User: "Bert Hyman" |
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| Title: Re: In memory of the dead and buried stories of the year! |
20 Dec 2003 02:46:28 PM |
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In news:p0d9uvgei65g0llov4qjdtb4mn0ume13hg@4ax.com Harry Hope
<rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
For a very long time, we believed most of what we heard on the news.
Then for a very long time, you lived in a dream land.
--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@visi.com
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