Common sense dictates, that if you don’t believe the President and his re-election team intentionally misled the American people on Benghazi for political gain, then you’re probably a staunch partisan sycophant willing to swallow any and all ideological poison fed to you. Truth be told, the last five years have fostered such ignorance in our great nation. Nevertheless, the bigger story is the “main stream media’s” culpability on the matter of what any (good) journalist would tell you is a monumentally consequential story.
Literally everything we stand for and everything that makes America click, economically, culturally and otherwise, is compromised when the press fails to act responsibly and impartially. Consequently, as we look back on Watergate and remember the stick-to-itiveness and diligence of an unrelenting press, supposedly operating under the banner of the “people’s right to know”, it’s difficult to grasp how far those standards have fallen. Maybe they were never standards at all. Worse yet, maybe those standards only apply to one side of an argument.
“Freedom of the press” can obviously be defined in constitutional ways. But ours is unique in that it’s unhindered by government, or at least it’s supposed to be. Unfortunately, today’s high-tech press has largely become a political animal, run and financed by the 60’s flower generation and willfully blind to the history which guarantees its voice. Common decency and trueness to a code of neutrality when reporting the news to “We the People”, has been replaced by a more slanted and ideological version of that news. Of course the causality in this case is often the truth. Suffice it to say, that in the age of “breaking news”, the influence of “the main stream media” is certainly palpable.
The good news my fellow Americans, is that same modern media now gives us choices and information en masse by way of the World Wide Web. It’s simply up to us to seek the truth, all the while listening to that little voice in our head folks like Chris Matthews hope we’ll ignore…
