I guess if you don’t have any news that’s good, you might as well make something up, right – “Mission Accomplished.”

There was a journalist from the local newspaper came to my Journalism class a month ago to talk and spent twenty minutes on how the blogs and the Internet were ruining the way news is sent out.

I really wanted to ask him why he and others at the paper are a bunch of religious wackos who lack the balls to ask the tough questions, but I stayed my hand because I was in a class that completely agreed with him and any opposing viewpoint was shouted down, which is why my article debunking Bush’s war drums for Iran was never printed, despite constant promises it would be.

“If someone dares to make a statement that contradicts their “new truth”, they smear them- or blow their wife’s cover- and John Q. Public seems to miss the debunking of said smear that follows the initial story of it, but retaining that said contradiction was said by some “disreputable” source and therefore not true.”

Welcome to the world of the conspiracy theorist, where we predicted this back in 2000 and no one listened.

I used to think it might be the Photoshopped picture or the manipulated or CGI’d video that might threaten reality in this modern world, but I wasn’t prepared for the audacity of these pseudofascists now running the asylum. They repeat an untruth over and over- with such volume- until it becomes “truth”. If someone dares to make a statement that contradicts their “new truth”, they smear them- or blow their wife’s cover- and John Q. Public seems to miss the debunking of said smear that follows the initial story of it, but retaining that said contradiction was said by some “disreputable” source and therefore not true. Then, when all else fails, they fall back on the sex life of a Republican- they Pay for it. Whether it’s the VNRs, the abovementioned “journalists”, or filling the new Iraqi media with Pollyanna Pro-Americana stories, they weave a brand spanking new reality out of whole cloth that’s usually less complex and dumbed down from the original- like babyfood for an increasingly infantile populace.

The “news” has finally become what it’s always been threatening to become: A corporate entity that panders to it’s audience instead of informing them. Run a thousand stories about Brad and Angelina, run some propaganda, and then spend three weeks talking about white women in peril.

You’re correct, King Retard. The Fourth Estate is fucked. What I wonder is if people will finally realize that and the fact that if we can’t be properly informed of the truth, it might mean we’re fucked as well.

And the internet is only so helpful. The response I get far too often when trying to inform someone of some story that the MSM is not covering or covering poorly is, “You can’t believe what you read on the internet.”

And for those who would blame the media for these grotesque situations, ask yourself: what do we consume? How many Americans can name the Secretary of State as opposed to the final three contestants on American Idol?

“Every country has the government it deserves.”
– Joseph Marie de Maistre