America lacks a mainstream press. What it has is a mainstream cess, as in ‘cesspool.' by John Kozy
(liberal)
Friday, July 3, 2009
On June 30, ABC's Nightline ran a featured story about how 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan became the symbol of Iran's struggle which can serve as a paradigm for the big lie.
Of course, Nightline implied that tragic events like this only occur in nations with authoritarian governments, those governments that make up an axis of evil. Such events could never occur in America, a virtuous, humane, constitutional democracy that guarantees its citizens the rights to peacefully assemble and to petition the government for a redress of their grievances. So, I presume, the brutal suppression by U.S. Army troops under the leadership of Douglas MacArthur and George S. Patton of the Bonus Expeditionary Force of 43,000 veterans and their families in 1932 never took place. And I presume that Alabama's suppression of the Birmingham campaign in the early 1960s never happened either. And, of course, there is the infamous May 4, 1970 massacre at Kent State in which the Ohio National Guard killed four and wounded nine anti-war demonstrating students. I presume, too, that it never happened.
No one knows who shot Neda Agha-Soltan, but we know who Douglas MacArthur, George S. Patton, Eugene "Bull" Connor, and the members of the Ohio National Guard were; yet none ever bore any consequences for their actions. Why? Because in America, things like that just don't happen, and when they do, we merely erase them from our minds and history. So the truth becomes a lie and the big lie becomes the truth.
That nightline would so blatantly promote this big lie is proof that America lacks a mainstream press. What it has is a mainstream cess, as in "cesspool." What is most troubling, however, is that none of the self-proclaimed "journalists" who work in this cesspool displays any shame. They all deserve to be flushed. As America slides into third-world status, America's mainstream journalists will have to bear much of the responsibility for it but they won't take it.
Before the piece ran, the anchor, Terry Moran, I believe, warned that it was "disturbing." Indeed it was but not in the way that Mr. Moran meant. It disturbed me enough to post this piece.
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What America did in the past has nothing to do with what just happened in Iran. Your article is an example of "poisoning the well".
You have proved nothing except your extreme hatred for America, much like the Islamic extremists running Iran's tyrannical and phony government. And that makes me suspicious of why you posted this article.
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