Broken Government : Broken MEDIA
Monday, March 3, 2008 at 09:51PM 
The media has lately caught on well to the fact that the Goverment is broken. Well done! The last 6 months, every time you turn on TV, you'll be treated to News Shows that splash powerful captions ... Broken Government - Scorched Earth, Broken Government - Broken HealthCare, Broken Government - War .... so on so forth ... .
While these ground breaking reports are fascinating there is still one news article I am dying to see on TV captioned:
Broken Government : : BROKEN MEDIA ........
I am sure its fun for the media to criticize the government, and trust me this Government deserves every ounce of it and more, and while I agree with their powerful new line-up the question that cracks my head in two is "Did they just figure this out, yesterday?"
1) The country's foreign policy and foreign relations has been shattered for 5 years now, since the day they diverted their attention to Iraq.
Foreign policy? Saddam Hussein as we all know, was one of the most treacherous dictators/murderers in the history of the world. However, there were NO weapons of mass destruction (sorry for being the being the millionth person to repeat that!) but why should I be sorry when this administration will not be sorry when the millionth person dies because of this war and that might have already happened coz the casualty estimate, everyone included, good, bad and ugly is 600, 000 to 1, 000, 000 people. A foreign policy that made a decision that killed more than 500, 000 people and thinks the war is going well, and are succeeding ...redefines the word Collateral Damage.
Foreign Relations? Going in for the war without the support of the rest of world, endangering the country by engaging in the very act (murderous presence in foreign lands - justified or unjustified) that has in part spawned and fully fueled radical terrorism and then being more stubborn about a mistake than humanly possible? There are no more foreign relations ...
2) Healthcare? The country's healthcare has always been broken: broken by pharmaceutical companies who abuse their medicines to drain every penny people earn with as much greed as the Middle East does with their oil! Broken by their ads that can convince every healthy person who is watching Tv, that they are depressed, fat, and diseased. Broken by an insurance system that relishes in the pharmaceuticals greed to gamble on peoples health, fears and inability to cope with prices, and broken by doctors who just wanna survive in the system by forcing medicine on people like spam, and by a population that has been trained to believe that their health is reflected in the number of medicines they take, lack of symptoms, driven purely in every decision by fear, fear and more fear .... I dont blame us, we never stood a chance!
3) Economy? Well, most the of the economic strength of the 90's was because of the american companies and the amerian people, not really the government, they just didnt do their part in protecting the American people from a world of creditors eyeing the money of the newly rich, and even more the lack of money of the not-newly rich in a newly rich world.
4) GOVERNMENT? What Government? Group of people who work for a even more powerful group of people, turn around and "Collateralize" people overseas, and even more COLLATERALIZE their own people, failing to serve the people who voted for them, put their trust in them, with a sole achievement of dividing the people by political beliefs, religion, race and every other division possible ... Broken yes ... New NEWS? No ... We all have seen this happening for several years now? Who is the MEDIA? The people who are smart, curious and trained to report this before we catch on to it ... so why are we hearing them say it after we figured it out, screamed it out and then got tired of screaming it out .... coz they are BROKEN, as broken as the governement, as broken as health-care, as scorched as the Earth ..... The truth is the government has been breaking for more than 8 years now .. .sure it would be sweet to blame it all on Bush .. but the government started breaking a long time ago, the day an American President performed a feat, or had a feat performed on him in the White House, came out and lied to his people about it, the day the American President got impeached and the day the country went to vote not knowing what they were voting for ..... Issues? Morals? Punishing the party for its leaders actions? The day the election split 50 - 50 the breaking government started bleeding ... The saddest event in the history of this country, 9 -11 was actually the one time the Government showed signs of healing, strength and just something ... Bush and his guys have to be given some credit for attempting to heal a wounded nation, and they did a good job ... but as many traumatic incidents, the aftermath proved even more devastating than the trauma! Iraq happened and the bleeding government just gave way .....
I watch the news everyday. I know that some of our reporters are the smartest reporters in the world, probably dying for the last 5 years to come out of the fear closet and scream out at what was going on ... but it never happened ..
Why? BROKEN GOVERNMENT: BROKEN MEDIA
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Reader Comments (3)
I am sure "it's" so :P
The media is as it is….biased, skewed, misguided, unethical….Yes, it would be nice if the media paid as much attention to the case as to the content. But the (mainstream) media is generally shaped by the things it perceives will sell and further influenced by a few people at the top who decide which of those things to sell.
Final words: The world will always be full of crap. Gentle humor helps deal with it. ‘might as well smile at the roses while frowning at the thorns. (and no sarcasm intended this time either)