Is the "Media" still relevant?

This is a question I am having a hard time answering.

More and more it seems we (the audience) aren't getting news, we're getting cycles of sound bites recycled, and recycled and recycled until something new comes along.

Nevermind the fact that we are in two wars, the government of Mexico is getting overrun by drug lords, and there is a huge world of news out there that the American media simply doesn't cover. Correspondents seem perfectly happy twittering at a safe desk in a safe office somewhere and copy-and-pasting from the AP wire.

Case in point: Flight 1549.

Don't get me wrong.

I think it's great that the plane landed safely and no one died and the pilots and crew (and all of the rescuers involved) should have been given some air time.

But a whole week?

Those folks couldn't wipe their heinies without the media discussing it.

Now the latest crush is on Rush.

Soon, it will be Sebelius.

Over it all is bi-partisan "analysis".

Whatever.

I think Americans are talking to each other, online.

And that scares the hell out of the big media corporations (six of whom control 90 % of the global media market--including all magazines, news outlets, movies, music, books, etc.).

You may need to let that sink in for a moment.

Six companies (or seven depending on who you believe) that control 90% of what people all over the world read, listen to, and watch.

In my opinion we're starting to dialogue without the intermediary-media pitting us against each other.

Frankly, I think it's about effing time.

PS; Thanks to those who left test comments. They came through so apparently the html god got over it's tiff with me. Comments are again open. Yay!

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Few words for this one...

I'm not going to even introduce this:



Liberals want to "tear apart" the country?

They want liberals to leave?

Because we won and we are trying to fix things? To educate people? To help the poor and the sick? To end the futile wars that have taken thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of foreign lives?

How messed up is it that those who are trying to pick up the pieces are getting demonized like this? Liberals are murderers and rapists and Muslim's who kill their wives? This guy is on crack.

Rush is crazy; pure and simple, unadulterated loony tunes.

And people call the left bad for refusing to buy into their fear.

Flush can go fluck himself. I don't know what flucking is, but he can go right on ahead and do it.

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Lies, lies, lies

The GOP is lying about everything from:

• The final size of ARRA. It started at 736 pages--- it's now up to 759 pages--- which means 23* WHOLE pages of amendments have been added. John Boehner just claimed on the floor of the House that the bill is over 1,100 pages long. This cements further that this man has not even looked at the bill, much less read it.
• How much time reps and senators have had to read it (um, like two weeks now?)
• The crap about the health care records director being a new position (George Bush created the position FIVE years ago; here's a link to the fella's bio)
• The purpose of the health care record system that Limberger LIED about yesterday, as did Fox without even bothering to verify facts and sources
• The provision that will STOP people like Flush from getting the same prescription from multiple doctors. A doctor, in reality as put forth in the bill, will be able to access a list of prescriptions any patient is currently filling at any pharmacy.
  

There's more, but my complexion is finally starting to clear and Valentine's Day is tomorrow. I want to be in a good mood for my husband's sake and mine, too.

Frankly, I am sick of this whole bipartisan bullshit.

The GOP ideas are the ones that got us here, today, having to spend our way out of this mess in a terrible economy where unemployment is nearing 8%, housing foreclosures are affecting the secondary market now (not just the bad loans), and small businesses are shutting door, after door, after door.

Obama tried, they've all said no, and acted like tools. That's it. They had their shot.

It's time to move on and move upward.

Be part of the solution or get the hell out of the way.

Check out this video of Dave Obey making the closing case against the GOP's lies this afternoon on the House Floor:



PS: We must stand up against the lies. The Bush Administration lied time after time after time. Here's the link to a petition to urge an investigation of these criminals:
http://ga3.org/campaign/btcpetition?qp_source=btc_hp

* Funny thing to prove my well-placed fear of numbers. I had to change this number 3 times today.

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