Bias in Press and the Media - "Toxic Media"

Toxic Media - Toxic Decisions - Toxic Waste! Part I

Toxic Media - Toxic Decisions - Toxic Waste! Part I
by Edward Biamonte - Fujah Magazine - http://www.fujah.com

President Theodore Roosevelt stated "There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful."

For months I have been thinking about the Media, propaganda, the President of the United States, the Congress and Senate, so called independent voters, moderates, conservatives, and most of all the egregious reporting by 75% of the media destroying any accountability to maintain ethical standards for truth in journalism.

For most of us, roughly 70% of the population, we must adapt the premise there is an “urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them” the media must exposed.

For years I have held the premise many in media are nothing more than ideologues and propagandists. Disgusted by their lack of integrity and quest to promote Ideology - surrogates, puppets, elitist and power hungry Machiavellians are networking their politic and earning them the moniker “Toxic Media”. The media spin for many is so evident one wonders how so many of the public can accept such toxic rhetoric - propaganda, toxic waste!

As an Independent let me clearly state my presupposition - this OP ED is about the press. Concerning Obama - this article is about how the media covers him and not about him personally- but, that does not mean I have to like his policies or give him a pass because he is the media darling of the day. Being the independent spirit I am, because he is the media’s darling, the media has placed a bulls eye on everything Obama says and does.

As propagandist - the press is not doing their job. In Fact - had they done so through out the 2008 presidential election campaign - the current mess we find ourselves in - most likely - would not be happening. Clinton’s robust statement of her opponent “He - Obama - is not ready yet” was ridiculed and denied my many in the popular press. What we learned from history lessons to properly vet every politician - was ignored! When covering a political it should be about the facts - all the facts good or bad. There was such a Toxic difference, a protectionist attitude, in how Obama was covered versus all the other candidates allows us the - John Q Public - the right to point our fingers at the media and say “You Lied to us - You are responsible for everything that is going wrong in our country! Every person in the news or information media needs to be reminded (A) their job is to report the facts so we the people have (All The Truth). Toxic media produces toxic decisions.

From the voting primaries prior to the last election the sharks lost their teeth and the capacity for rational thinking; 75% of the media’s ability for truthful and rational dialogue - lost! The capacity to reason - gone for ever; because they sold their souls to protect Obama; their credibility - forever gone. When one person in the press loses the capacity to unbiasedly analyze and fact check the stories they’re spewing. The story can easily be rejected by truthful and fair debate through the revelation of facts in the media dialogue. One person’s propagated self interest and direct bias toward the country is simple pervasion. However, when 75% of the press media are mitigating for one politician over an other politician giving millions false impressions these elitist have created a Toxic environment. The current media mess begs the question - is it time for the public to rise up and demand a media revolution; demand the Media become Green - to coin another phrase - free of pollution. Time to demand they clean house, throw out the trash and stop spewing their rhetorical flatulence on the air ways!

Prevalent echos of shallow speeches past remind us that how speeches are delivered or how the politician is dressed should not be the most important commentary of the politician as though they are some kind of glorified thespian (super star) - which is really starting to make rational thinkers vomit. The “Hollywood Effect” is old and lately Mr. O is losing his cool as tensions reveal a sinister dark side of one who is thin skinned and likes to eliminate any form of opposition or disagreement to his agenda. However - many of the programmed Obama viewers are starting to wake up and reject the empty visual and oratorical bombastic cues lauded by the popular media.

Cool-aid drinking automatons who once closed their ears to the dissertation of facts are now opening their ears and breaking out of their cycles of personal and media propagated denial. Liberal Bill Maher: "I think President Obama makes a brilliant President. In the sense of a corporate President, not the kind that runs a country. He is great at making speeches, shaking hands and should be the PR rep for our country." As one colleague just recently admitted to me - “Obama looked and talked like someone I could be proud of, I had no idea every time he opened his mouth the economy and stock market would drop 300 points”. The pedagogic fluff of Obama is starting to roost in the minds of every moderate conservative that voted for him. Even moderate liberals are salting down their beers with their tears!

The White House must be hearing the drum beat for the call of Revolution against the ailing Obama administration. A recent Gallup poll revealed a huge fall off of followers. Thirty two percent of the nation are now claiming they are Democrats. Thirty Two percent Republican and a whopping Thirty Four percent Independent. Linda Douglass, former CBS News and then ABC News Washington bureau reporter until 2006, is a Barack Obama senior strategist. It is being reported that she “fixed a deal” for a two hour special for Obama on Friday June 18th 2009. Will this be a typical Obama Press fluff feast; another attempt to keep the life time campaigner in his media mode where he shines the best? As one reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle stated - “the liberal media and Obama should just get a room”. It really should be no wonder - ABC gave 55% more positive coverage for the Stealth Health Bill currently in debate than other outlets and during the 2008 campaign season ABC employees gave 80 % more money to the Obama campaign than any other media outlet said Fox News. Are they trying to ram their investment down our throat? Is it time to Boycott ABC, CNBC and NBC for unethical biased reporting?

The so called independent - rational thinkers - are finally realizing that many things were not what they seem or were told they would be. The so called “vote for Hope and Change” has revealed itself an agist political ideology that has failed in every form of adaptation by governments or states under the guise once again - for all the people - socialism. The face of socialism - redistribution of wealth, communistic reflections, degradations of our 2nd Amendment rights, silencing the voice of free speech, the - so called - Fairness Doctrine, the reversal of the freedom of choice act forcing hospitals who do not do abortions to do them. The limiting of brass for fire arm ammunition, spending money we don’t have, it leaves one pondering - what is happening - how can this happen in a country that prides itself on Freedom and liberty? How did the public become so numb?

History has one answer. It’s all about the information the public is given to process. The reference, propagandist- is the accurate term; the Toxic press coverage by the popular media and the Obama administration is propaganda. To understand the tactics of propaganda one has to look back 60 years to learn from the finest example of Toxic media. And - let me be perfectly clear - if the similarities are prevalent- if it walks like a duck it probably is. For the record - tactical similarities of a Toxic Tyrant - to use a modern phrase - changed the world forever. If the tactics worked for one political group the same tactics of getting the word out might work for another despite the differences of policy. The results are the same - Toxic problems! The popular and liberal press are now a political party - propagating Toxic waste.

Coming soon - Part II - Tyrannical Propaganda / Similar Tactics in the 2008 Presidential Election