Friday, October 3, 2008

Blog #4 Bad Journalism #2


Bad journalism comes in many facets, forms and medians, unfortunately for some it is only the educated eyes and ears that can uncover the real truth behind bad journalism...

Journalism; the eyes and ears of a democratic nation...but what happens when the eyes reflect deceitful images and the ears hears nothing but lies. That is exactly the phenomenon that is journalism and the media in the United States today. Once upon a time one could turn to a newspaper and even a television set and rest assure that they were leaving with truthful un-biased information to ponder about. The journalism median was one of prestige and honor, a journalist was someone whom you could trust because you knew your own best interest was at the heart of every news story. Well, today an entire decade into the greatest innovations and we now live in an arbitrary reality. Journalism and media have become just as corrupted as the corporations they strive to please...

The American government whom should be monitored by the free press now does the monitoring of it. They filter everything the American people see, read and hear through manipulation, privatized and conglomerate agendas. There are of course exceptions of some publishers that are true to the journalistic integrity but I will discuss them later, now I will focus on the mis-information merry go-round, ring circus which we continue to be exposed to...Our democratic, constitutional rights for a free, ethical press is vanishing right before our eyes. Our first amendment of a free press is more scarce than ever thanks to bad journalists whom promote the agendas for the powers that be and continue to disease our airways, newspapers with lies and coercion... I prefer images of dreadful truths than images of lovely lies....

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