Media Out of Step

From what happened yesterday (April 15th) it is clear the media elite are out of step and not interested in real news. They are even more interested in spin than our non-representing representatives are. Where they can't spin something they simply ignore it as though it doesn't exist. It is little wonder with this mentality that most of the media are losing readers and listeners. The News Media is no longer content with reporting facts and events. They are more interested with spinning them for the sake of some political advantage.

CNN one of the larger news outlets had nothing on their web site to say about the more than 800 registered tea parties yesterday. They had no interviews not even a mention of it at least no where that would draw any attention to it, but they sure had room on their website today for a story about a man who had a 2 inch tree growing in his lungs. Little more can be said for CNBC, MSNBC, or any of the other major news outlets.

Fox News was about the only news agency to cover the tea parties. This should in no way be interpreted to mean that I'm fawning over them. They have as many ridiculous fluff pieces as the rest of them. The only difference is that they try to give both sides, but this again goes back to the problem. They feel their job is to comment on the events not to report them. For some reason the media think we're too stupid to make up our own minds about things. We need to be told what to think about them.

The only news media that seems willing to cover many of the stories is the blogasphere. I have yet to hear with more than a 5 second sound bite, about nearly a dozen law suits brought before the supreme court as well as many others brought before state courts regarding proof that Obama is a natural born citizen, all being thrown out by judges because they don't feel it has impact on the American people. The fact that no judge will order such a simple request that Obama prove he qualifies for the highest post in the land ought to freighten every American. There ought to be many reports on how Obama has stonewalled and sent lawyers to block every opportunity to get that the records that would prove he is or is not natural born. There ought to be a firestorm of news stories till the truth comes out either way.

Yet where the news is concerned this issue doesn't exist. Much like what most of the news media has done with the Tea Parties, they have ALL done with the issue of Obama's natural born status. Yes they would like you to believe that anyone that quesitons his natural born status is a kook and a conspiracy theorist, but still his refusal to offer any proof and indeed his active blocking of access to any proof seems news worthy.

I can't help but wonder if watergate would have ever made it to the front page news if we'd had the news reporters and mogals then that we have now? People are not stupid they understand that the News has become little more than an arm of the government. Do you think the people in Russia 30 years ago were eager to read Pravda? Why when they knew it was full of misinformation?

Through the internet we now have many other sources of information at least as reliable as the garbage we're being fed from the official news services. It is not likely the news outlets are going to find their way back from entertainment and spin to actually reporting facts and events. They think being a three ring circus and providing entertainment is where the money is as they constinue to watch their revenues drop year after year. They simply don't understand people watch the news to get NEWS. If they don't provide that news then people will watch other things far more entertaining than the news will ever be. Instead of trying to one up America's Funniest Home Video's they ought to be doing hard hitting investigative reporting and not letting our politicians get away with their lies and misrepresentations.