by Henry Oliner

I believe that the bias from the media is often a result of reporting from the townhall meetings. People will go to “townhall meetings” to complain. The rest of us are working, shopping, visiting our friends and parents and children, going to school, reading, working out or fixing the house. The 94.4% that has a job is not heard from at these meetings.

The media parrots the people who know nothing but their own experience. They go looking for people who have a problem to complain about and ignore the people who are relatively happy; it just is not good news. By the time these problems are repeated enough everyone thinks the problem is greater than it is.

This is not to stick our proverbial heads in the sand and ignore the real problems; we do have them. But the media seems to ignore the stories that do not deliver their preordained conclusions. In conversations it still amazes me how few people know about the 550 tons of yellowcake (material for nuclear enrichment) shipped from Iraq to Canada, the nuclear plant in Syria destroyed by Israel about a year ago (with US complicity), or how few knew about the John Edwards zippergate until they could ignore it no longer. (Rumors of a McCain liason with no credibilty lept to the front page of the New York Times within a single news cycle).

The ignorance and bias that masqerades as news; and the cynicism that masqerades as perpective is a farce that I hope the people eventually see though. Thank God for the internet for providing the sources that the media once kept from us.

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