How many people will your "fair and balanced" reporting kill? An open letter to the corporate media

[Bjorn Against]

Dear Corporate Propagandists,

It doesn't matter whether you market yourselves as being "Fair and Balanced" or "the most trusted name in news" we know the truth about you.

We know that the only balance that you provide is a balance between fact and fiction, with a heavy bias towards fiction. In your world a make-believe character named Paris Hilton is more important to world affairs than say global warming or the mountains of dead Iraqi civilian bodies.

It is only in your make believe world that we look at an issue like global warming and think that the side that has over nine hundred peer-reviewed scientific studies to back them up should not be given any more airtime than the side that has zero scientific studies to back them up. It doesn't matter that one side is essentially arguing that there is a massive liberal conspiracy to prevent even one solitary peer reviewed study to be published that suggests global warming is not happening, this position is considered to be credible by your standards. Somehow though I get the impression that if the situation were reversed and there were over nine-hundred peer-reviewed scientific studies to back up the corporatist position and zero to back up the environmentalists position you would not be giving the environmentalists any air time unless it were to mock them, and you would be completely justified in shutting them out of the debate if that were the case. But of course that is not the case, instead it is your advertisers who are on the losing side but you can't afford to lose their business so you allow their representatives in the "think tanks" to get in front of the cameras and lie to us repeatedly and distract us from what is happening.

You allow them to distract us by focusing on such trivial matters as the energy consumption of Hollywood celebrities. You allow them to tell us that there is nothing wrong with emitting huge quantities of greenhouse gases, unless of course those greenhouse gases are emitted by Al Gore then all of a sudden those emissions are a serious concern. It doesn't matter to you that Al Gore has NEVER suggested that everyone get rid of all sources of electricity and completely stop driving or flying, you seem to be intent on suggesting that everyone who is worried about global warming should be required to do just that. In your make-believe world every one in the environmental movement wants to tell everyone else to cut back to nothing but they refuse to do so themselves.

The truth is though that we are not asking people to give up all technology, we are simply asking them to do what they can to limit the impact they have on the planet. We don't expect everyone is going to do everything we suggest, and no we can't even always do everything we suggest others do. The fact is we are not perfect, but we are trying to do better and while some of us may be more effective at cutting our carbon emissions than others we can all learn from one another and give each other advice about how to be a better steward of the environment. There is nothing hypocritical about that, and there is no hypocrisy in Al Gore not fully living up to a perfectly green lifestyle either. It is not like he is asking that he be exempt from any of the changes in public policy that he proposes. The fact is that no matter what his energy consumption he is at least trying to make a difference, unlike the people you put on to tear him down.

We know the reason you choose focus on the energy consumption of a single man while ignoring the energy consumption of our nation as a whole however, it is because you are trying to protect the people who send your corporate headquarters billions of dollars.

Don't think we do not realize that all those SUV commercials you air constantly have an effect on your coverage of global warming. We know that you are bought out, and we know that you can not be trusted.

By pretending there is a debate on global warming you are helping to ensure that no meaningful steps are done to stop global warming. In other words you are helping to destroy this planet, and you are putting each and every one of our lives in danger. You are destroying our country and this world through your preference of profit over truth, it is a true act of treason that you are committing and I can not support your broadcasts in any way.

I have turned the television off, and don't think you are going to get me to turn in back on again.

Sincerely,
A Citizen of the Earth

[Middle finga]

1. Fox news started that "Fair and Balanced" bullshit and rest of the MSM

followed along like chicks following a hen trying to get ratings.

[JeffR]

2. Beautiful!

:kick:

[Swamp Rat]

3. k&r

:kick:

[EFerrari]

4. Off you go. K&R

[NanceGreggs]

5. Sometimes giving a thread a REC ...

... is a recognition of a well-crafted piece of writing.

Sometimes it is a sign of solidarity with the author's opinion, and their ability to express it well.

Sometimes it is a moral obligation, because you know it is an important statement that needs to be widely read.

Sometimes, like now, it is a combination of all three.

[DeSwiss]

6. K&R!!!

:thumbsup: :D

I turned mine off from the TV news quite a while back....