The Media, when wrong is right----not !

The Prince Harry reporting debacle is one of the latest examples of the irresponsible behavior the media displays almost daily. To intentionally endanger this young man's life is despicable, but the other lives thrown into the mix make the offense even worse. The reality of this situation is that the public really didn't need have a need to know and the whole reason for the leaking of the information was to sell magazines and soap, greed was the total motivation as it is with most media outlets. The media(print, broadcast, etc...etc...)has never been perfect, but the last twenty years or so has seen a slide downward with no end in sight. The latest mess with Mr. Obama is another example of biased reporting. The mainstream media refuses to accept the fact that this guy is bad news and should be avoided like crabs on a toilet seat. The media will do almost anything to keep this anti-American creep in the race because he garners viewers, listeners and readers and that equates to money and power.

Print has finally caught up with television and radio for biased and often inaccurate content as well as whoring themselves for any story, but it's too late for print to recover as the Internet is killing the medium. Reporting continues to become more and more biased either to the right or left depending on the outlet and stories not reported in their entirety to get the story across with a particular lean, accuracy is not paramount. What is equally sad is the quality of the people making the delivery itself, there are more douche bags who should be working the french fry machine at the local McDonald's, sitting in front of cameras and talking into microphones today, than ever before. Writers spin their yarns leaving out as many actual facts as possible, talk radio personalities spew vitriol at anyone who even moderately opposes their far right or left views and when confronted with facts, make quick use of the cut off switch, then rail at the caller for being either a fascist, commie, socialist or just a plain and simple unenlightened moron. Television is populated by similar types only not as intelligent as their contemporaries in print and radio. This group possess certain physical traits that appeal to and attract viewers, they run the gamut from super models to Trolls (I apologize if I have offended any Trolls). They are not in the same league with their contemporaries in radio when it comes to intelligence as their comments are provided to them by writers and twisted by producers who are as bright as the talk show people, thus the name talking heads. The television types occasionally drift off on their own and generally make asses of themselves in the process. What it all boils down to is that we the reading, listening, viewing public rarely get an accurate picture of what is really going on around us. Radio and television are very powerful mediums, and the people who run the outlets really know this. They would like to think they have control over the hearts and minds of their viewers, listeners and readers. As I am unaware of any unbiased outlets I have been trying this simple little exercise for some time and the results have been amazing, it works like this. I listen to several points of view each morning and evening, I don't spend a huge amount of time listening as it is usually easy to get the point they are all trying to get across, then I either sit and think about what I have taken or better yet go for a short walk which in my case, helps me to think. I then come up with my own opinion, not the hysterical far right or left opinion espoused by the media outlets. Sometimes I do a minimum of research if the subject is somewhat complex, and in the end I am normally in disagreement with both sides' extreme views. This also, helps to keep a touch with reality as these organizations have a strong tendency to preach doctrine that is not only unrealistic, most often left or right Utopian and not practical or attainable in the world we live in. In other words be independent, don't let the media do your thinking, think for yourself and form your own opinions, you'll find out that you're right way more often than they are.