Timely News Under Attack (pt 2)

            Ratings are the fuel that drives the media. We all know that. And as logic would agree, to get the ratings the news media giants have to put out a product that people want to see. We get that too. But unfortunately the American diet for news is one that has been ruined with junk food and processed products that in many ways can hardly be considered news at all. Talk about stuffed and starved all at the same time!

Timely news under attack

            The current dispute between the President and the fantasy news network (FNN) is one we all need to pay attention to. It’s one of those issues that seem to pop up every now and then, where we find people who would literally never be on the same side of an issue huddling together and working on solving a problem. At issue is the ability of the press to access the President and a dispute about the abuses of power; theirs not his.  We still need a free press but when a press goes rouge are there limits to how much access the President should give them?

Time for peace prizes not sour grapes

            Let’s see, Ronald Regan gave us the evil empire and touted diplomacy with nuclear weapons from outer space.  By some he also gets credit for ending the cold war, but much to the dismay of the conservative party no outside nod from Norway for a job well done with a Peace Prize.  George Bush gave us the axis of evil. He created a world of bad guys trying to outdo the other all vying to get on the list and single handedly convinced the world that when it comes to America, the word Peace is what we use around here to increase troop numbers and support arms build-ups!

Time gathering news from face book

              You would have had to be living away far  off the grid as of late not to notice that the attacks on the President and his policies have taken on a new fervor. See if you can figure out who is throwing slander in this Alter net blog piece. New and old foes alike have forgotten that we are in this together, and civility has hit such an all time low that it makes one wonder if the birth of the 24hr news slander machine has truly become anything but slander politics at its worst.

Time with some disturbing premises

            Premise #1: the Democrats have control of everything. Premise #2: Accordingly, if they were Republicans, they could take us to war, enact a Patriot Act that no one would have the time to read because the barbarians are at our door, appropriate billions of dollars to a war no one is keeping books on and finally come up with a six page document to bail out Wall Street with a free get out of jail card attached to it. Premises # 3: That is if they were Republicans.