The Truth

I think it all went wrong in the mid to late 80's, sometime after Walter Cronkite retired. He was probably the last real journalist we've had in America. These days America is led by the nose by our 24 hr news cycle. The people who work for CNN, Fox ABC, NBC and CBS are under pressure to make news every single hour of the day, even if there isn't news.
Being under such pressure, they have learned that outright lies generate viewers just as well as the truth. It makes no difference, as long as people tune in. There in-lies our problem- we have accepted outright lies as news, to be debated back and forth, even thought the person reporting these lies knows for certain that some of the statements they are reporting are not truthful.
Right now with the stimulus plan the media are reporting that the stimulus isn't working and we may need a second round of stimulus. What went wrong and where's the money, they ask-knowing full well that only 11% of the 787 bn. dollars has been spent. I listened to Rep. Eric Cantor on PBS talk about how the stimulus is a failure and he knew it all along. No one through the whole interview mentions that only a 10th of the money allocated has been spent.
This seems to happen overwhelmingly with Rethugligans telling the media almost any lie they want and the media reporting it as truth. Vincent Bugliosi the man who wrote the book "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" said in that book, "the media is scared of Republicans, this is why they (the media) let them get away with outright lies". This is also why the Clinton Impeachment went as far as it did. The media were just as complicit as Rethugs in that travesty.
It's the reason that President Obama is basically being rushed concerning the economy right now. Rethugs are pounding the drums (media) complaining the economy should have turned around by now. I don't buy it at all. It was bad in October, November and December. America was on the brink of a full scale run on the banks, something that hasn't happened since the Great Depression. Now five months into Obama's Administration all is suppose to be turned around and everybody suppose to be back to work. It doesn't work like that, and the media knows this, but remember these people have to come up with a 'story' by 6pm- if it's true or not is beyond the point.
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