Because the main stream media has lost its credibility, we get our news through conservative commentary. by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Thursday, February 17, 2011
You can't watch the news on TV because of the well-known, unbalanced politics of the news establishment. So we are left with trying to get some of the news from Hannity and Beck. But those folks are just as biased in their own way. And so, we, the American people are blind.
There may be no greater threat to the national security of the United States than the way our television and radio news media have evolved.
The political bias of our national reporting has completely destroyed its credibility. What they cover, and how they report it has nothing to do with the real relevance to our nation, but instead is designed by self-identified liberals who have demonstrated their bias so many times, in so many ways that we can no longer even stomach turning on the news.
But, that leaves only the equally biased conservative talk shows as the source of news.
There were indicators that our national news communicators were in collaboration. The most obvious indicator was that when there were three main news programs on television, they all had the same lead stories, the same line up of news, the same views. Night after night, with a whole world and whole country worth of events, we would watch the editors of each of the three programs make exactly the same choices. Amazing.
And, Walter Cronkite's pronouncement of defeat in Vietnam during Tet...a military campaign we won, changed forever the roll of the news. If it ever was about informing the public, so they could make enlightened decision, it shifted from that to shaping public opinion to fit an agenda of political and social elite.
Information, the gathering and processing, is possibly the most important human activity. It is this ability which has allowed humanity to develop. And the control of this process has been revealed to the general public. We know we can't trust what is reported, no matter who reports it.
The polarization of America is bad. But it is exacerbated by the fact that there is not a news source trusted by the great majority of Americans.
Today, Glenn Beck's discussion of the events in the Middle East could be considered informative, but also inflammatory if replayed in the Middle East. Beck's simple frank assessment of the importance of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to the US strategy and deployment in the region could be used motivate anti-American activities.
While the challenge we face is probably not new, the stakes are much higher. Things happen at lightning speed now. Misinformation can cause unintended consequences. And for Americans who are already over tasked with things to do, trying to sift through the propaganda reported as news is just too much.
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