For those readers who continue to write and bemoan the “liberal media,” it’s time to tune out Rush Limbaugh and listen to reason. For starters, Eric Alter’s book, What Liberal Media? should be a nice beginning.
Some people complain about Fox News, but it is the most honest of the television networks, because it doesn’t attempt to hide its bias. ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC are all owned by Corporate America and they control what we are permitted to see and hear. The talking heads are just that, talking heads. People who think these networks aren’t biased are just fooling themselves. There are no Edward R. Murrows left in broadcasting.
Remember when Jerry Falwell threatened to buy CBS and fire Dan Rather? Guess what? Jerry Falwell didn’t do it, but corporate America did. What’s odd is that Rather wasn’t close to a Murrow or a Walter Cronkite. He was just too careless to get a factual report airtight before airing it, thereby setting himself up for the chopping block.
George Orwell (nM-i Eric Blair) tried to alert us to the mind control problems to come in his classic novel, 1984, but we didn’t pay attention. Now we are stuck with a modern-day version of the “Ministry of Truth,” and can’t do anything about it. The current administration is a living example of Orwell’s statement, “Ignorance Is Strength.” Orwell was explaining the value of doublespeak. By that standard, this is the strongest administration in our history.
For those who think they can get news from television instead of reading a newspaper, keep it up and we’ll continue to live our national nightmare that the late President Gerald Ford tried to end.
