If you blinked in August you missed one of the biggest news stories of the year. An eye blink, a few milliseconds, is all the time that the mainstream media devoted to covering it, even though it was the biggest slap in the face of a national leader since the Bostonians slapped King George by dumping his tea. The event I’m talking about was the primary vote in Missouri. There on Aug. 4 voters overwhelmingly rejected one of the main ingredients of Obamacare (the so-called “individual mandate”).
This was a big, big deal and a humongous news story, but if you don’t watch Fox News, you may have missed it altogether. Why? How can we be living in a country filled with thousands of news outlets but with only a handful that actually cover the news? Well, they all cover some news, just not the news they don’t like, just not any news that reflects poorly on their guy. Members of the media have become Obama proselytizers and propagandists. They report the good news (or take neutral news and spin it positive), but when something happens that makes Obama look bad, liberal reporters hide their heads like ostriches.
This cannot continue. America needs a free press. Currently, our press is free from government intrusion but not free from internal ideological corruption. The American press (media) is its own worst enemy. Newspaper readership is dying, and many blame that on the internet. But consumers aren’t turning to the internet because they like cold electronics better than paper; they are turning to the internet because it’s the only place they can get real news.
Newspapers and the mainstream media are dying because no one trusts them anymore. Why would you when the mainstream elites don’t even cover something as earthshaking as Missouri’s referendum? By ignoring stories like the Missouri primary, the mainstream media is slowly committing suicide. Consumers will not continue to pay for partisan non-news, and the mainstream media will soon die. R.I.P.
No comments:
Post a Comment