More Hero Pictures From Rally

Here are some pictures of the brave veterans for peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Gold Star Families for Peace. If ONLY the corporate media were patriotic and not corrupt. These people were there. And everyone there supports the troops. Of course the media would mislead the public to believe that these people were not patriots or anti-American and freedom.

 

 

 

Freedom is On the March

Today is Tuesday. We were in Washington DC this weekend where one of the largest rallies since the Vietnam war was supposed to be taking place. Not so amazing was that the corporate media reported "tens of thousands of Anti War protestors marched on DC". And failed to mention so much.

A friend pointed out to me in the articles that they also failed to mention that ever person in the march WAS in support of the troops. The corporate media completely left that fact out. They completely left out the hundreds of United States veterans that have fought for our county, including numerous Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans also were there, hugged by many and walked (or rolled in wheelchairs) proudly in the procession, displaying banners also against the war. I saw many people there that if the corporate media were doing it's job they would have been well known faces and house hold names. But that is in another time and place when true news reporting. Those people are famous in the alternative media, such as Truth Out who has given them a face and a voice.



George W. Bush, of course, went away for the weekend to monitor hurricanes from Colorado. We are not sure how that makes any sense whatsoever, but then not much of what this president does coincides with what they, meaning the Bush/Cheney Administration and the media, tell us is going on. When they showed the people of New Orleans, dead, sick and crying to be rescued, some how the dislocated horse judge, who had been assigned to manage FEMA, was, according to Bush, "doing a heck of a job."

We will have pictures of the rally where hundreds of thousands (C-Span estimated 600,000), marched on a course around the White House and DC.

There's Something Happening Here

People could accuse me of being a "liberal" or others would accuse me of being "conservative". Of course instead of the stereotypes that have been ground into American society over the last few years, I consider myself a mixture of both. But then again, I define myself by the dictionary definitions of those two words, as opposed to those who create a reality for us and have redefined those two words to divide the people and put them at odds.

My original intent of this site was to show all sides and all view points. However, and unfortunately, view points that differ from what the mainstream corporate media shows us are often silenced and never heard. Its not that I necessarily agree with the silenced voices, that point is neither hear nor there. The real point is in the fact that these voices ARE purposefully ignored and methodically kept silent in the mainstream, corporate owned media. Americans today, I fear, simply in their honest desire to trust, have given up rational, not to mention common sense, and believe what the corporate media tells them.

What is disturbing to me, is that many Americans choose simply not to question the truth. Many Americans have willingly allowed themselves to be part of a huge Pavlovian experiment. When fed the right information in the proper way, they can be induced to fear. When fed other information, otherwise good people can be taught to hate . . .even one another. Think tanks have given a good deal of thought into creating an environment, real or not, and guiding public thought and opinion.

For just a short time, during the Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the media reported the truth. Showing reality instead of making suggestion as to what the reality really was. I have heard that a culture of fear has been created by those who own the media as well in other companies across America. There was a day when the media fully backed its employees in their investigations for the truth. Today, that no longer seems to happen. Of primary importance for hiring a female "infotainment" anchor who looks as though she could be as easily on the cover or pages of a fashion magazine rather than a less attractive, but presentable, well groomed and knowledgeable anchor whose first priority was giving real news. Anchors who do not guide or "suggest" thoughts and ideas.

The bottom line of this all is the dollar. Capitalism at the expense of the human beings and the state of our country. And for that reason, our country is no longer one of united people, but one of "every man/woman for themselves", "sink or swim", and "survival of the priviledged". There is no greater example of the division of our people than was exposed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The have's, have not's and have more's. The destruction of New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and lack of concern for human life by government officials from state and local levels all the way up to the President himself exposed how ugly some of the people of our country truly are.

The Media In America Today

Is there really a liberal media? The answer can be found by comparing different news sources from around the world. All media in America is owned by five corporations and for that we can thank Michael Powell (see The Big Media Hall of Shame) , recently resigned commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. Deregulation afforded few moguls to own all of our media. And the real question to think about is 'Was this a plan allowed and designed by members in the top levels of government to advance and proceed with their own agenda?'

From my own days of being schooled in journalism, at a university in Maryland, it is startling to see every rule of journalism I was ever taught blatantly broken. We were taught to strive for objectivity, write the story as it actually happened, but we were especially avoid the utilization of emotionally charged words such as "whiney", "complaining" or "radical."

Now it seems that those in charge of the media, and I do mean ALL of it, strive for the emotionally charged, the conflicting, and the sensational. Sadly, our media does sway public opinion and it seems that those who own the media now use it for exactly that, rather than to inform or educate. The public has become so descencitized to what is real as opposed to "reality" television. Words such as liberal and conservative are used frequently in a derrogatory manner and the media seems to have purposefully even redefined the true meanings of these words. And the majority of the public has been willfully lead or mislead, as the case may be.