Our news isn’t real?  Bush controls the news?

What a revelation, and it’s getting big headlines.  Independent is reporting that American news and radio programs are running canned pieces put together by the American Government and large American corporations.  Is this supposed to shock me somehow?  I’ll tell you what shocks me.  The fact that people think this is actually news shocks me.  If you are over 16 years old and have ever read a newspaper, watched a news broadcast, or listened to talk radio then if this comes as a shock to you then you should really seek professional help.  By professional help in this case I mean you should run not walk to your nearest university and enroll immediately in a course on critical thinking.  I am sorry if you are one of the people who actually believed this was news, but you really are naive. 

This website griped is about all of the things that really gripe me.  And when someone thinks that this is news I get griped because of the lack of understanding that the people of the world really have about the way things in a capitalistic society work.  Everyone has an agenda right down to the news agencies who are airing corporately produced propaganda and passing them off as news stories.  Their agenda is to have access to material that they can air at zero cost to them.  A win win situation if you ask me, the corporation gets the word out that they wanted to get out, and the station doesn’t have to pay as many real reporters as they would have to if they were providing a legitimate service.

I am also griped with the Independent reporter who intentionally chose to use a quote from their source that made their source seem ignorant.  "They have got very good at mimicking what a real, independently produced television report would look like," is the quote they chose to use from Diana Farsetta whose company produced the original report.  When later in the article they state very clearly that the people producing the reports take great care to make sure it is branded and clearly stated that it was produced by the corporation.  Why would they intentionally use a quote that makes their single source look very poor?  Or the other possibility is that Ms. Farsetta during the entire interview never said another thing worth quoting but somehow I doubt that is the case.  Especially since the Independent also chose to headline their article “Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'”.  An obvious tell that the independent has an agenda of their own, to discredit the American President.  Most of this article is about corporately produce propaganda and not about anything that “Bush” has directly done.

I have to say that the independent has done a very poor job of both communicating a stupid article and a poor job of reaching their objective.  Independent you win this week’s booby prize for crappy reporting and a job done half assed.  Maybe you should look into getting your hands on some of the articles you are reporting about, I am sure they are better than this piece of crap.  Feel free to leave your comments.

Last update : 08-02-2008 21:38

Keywords : Articles, Politics, Our news isn't real

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