Trump
has gone around giving some great speeches this week. Both sides of the media were all over them
dissecting each, and every word, and hidden intentions that may or may not be
present. If any of the commentators were
that good at predicting intentions from words, then what the hell are they
doing being political commentators? They
are better suited to be tracking down serial killers, and criminals. They could probably even predict crimes by
dissecting the words said by people. It
seems funny, but the most interesting few words of Trump’s speech have not even
been addressed or mentioned anywhere. For those who did not hear the speech,
this is the part that is most real, and accurate:
“The establishment media doesn’t cover what really matters in this
country, or what’s really going on in people’s lives. They will take words of
mine out of context and spend a week obsessing over every single syllable, and
then pretend to discover some hidden meaning in what I said.
Just imagine for a second if the media spent this energy holding
the politicians accountable who got innocent Americans like Kate Steinle killed
– she was gunned down by an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times.
Just imagine if the media spent this much time investigating the
poverty and joblessness in our inner cities.
Just think about how much different things would be if the media
in this country sent their cameras to our border, or to our closing factories,
or to our failing schools. Or if the media focused on what dark secrets must be
hidden in the 33,000 emails Hillary Clinton deleted.
Instead, every story is told from the perspective of the insiders.
It’s the narrative of the people who rigged the system, never the voice of the
people it’s been rigged against.
So many people suffering in silence. No cameras, no coverage, no
outrage from a media class that seems to get outraged over just about
everything else.” (www.thehill.com)
No truer words have
ever been said by anyone running for public office. As much as we hold our politicians
accountable, we must hold the media accountable for their lack of real
journalism. The media in this country
has turned into cheerleading teams for either side, further diverting attention
away from where it really needs to be, which is on us, the people of this
country, the citizens who pay taxes, the true purchasing power of this country.
If low and median
income families stopped watching CNN, FOX, MSNBC and all of the others, then
what would happen to them? No
advertisers for products, and services purchased by the lower, and middle classes. They would have to close up shop because if
you look really close, high end designers do not advertise on these shows. So it is actually in their own best interest
to provide the public with what they want.
It is interesting
and sickening to see how ISIS members gets glorified in the media, for free
every time they commit some atrocity.
Even their family members get to be interviewed. It is also sickening how much press killers,
rapists, and other sociopaths get by the media, instantly giving them the glory
that they probably wanted. All this while
children and families in inner cities get killed at the hands of gang members,
and criminals sometimes in their own homes. The amount of money that is being poured into education, and never getting to where it needs to be causing our country to have one of
the worst educational systems anywhere. Where is that in the news every night? Pharmaceutical companies pour millions of
dollars into ads promoting their drugs, so they can turn around, and have the
citizens of this country pay for it, through their exorbitant costs. This also results in higher health insurance costs.
All of these things should be our concern. Politicians need US to get elected. The media needs US to watch so they can sell ads and make profits. Who are the losers here? We are.
If we are honest to ourselves and take a step back away from what we have been brainwashed to believe, we will
realize that this is indeed what has been happening systematically. We are told what to think, why we should
think it, and why our thinking is wrong or right depending on who is the storyteller you are watching. We are told what medications to ask our own
doctors for, and why even though they may kill us, and many do, why we should
keep taking it. Why aren’t these
companies being hunted down by our “journalists” and asked why their
medications are so expensive here, yet cheap in all other countries? Why are the ones who can make decisions to
improve our schools not hunted down, and interviewed by “journalists” and asked
why they are not doing their job? Why aren’t
those responsible for the decision making in order to ensure the safety of our inner cities not put on the spot? Is it too much to ask that the neighborhood you live in is safe from crime so that your child can make it
to his 40th birthday without getting shot or ending up in our judicial system?
The cure to our brainwashing is obviously more community involvement in that
which should matter to us. More
enforcement of our power as citizens, and more speaking out, now that we all
have the means to do it freely and publicly on Facebook, and other social media on issues that need to
be addressed. In the very least we
should all get on Twitter and whatever Facebook page of our politicians and community leaders have, and question them until we get a response and the change that we want. Let's also find the pages for all media outlets and tell them what we want to see in the news, and what we are tired of seeing. Speeches can be great and very motivating, but the proof is in the pudding.
#nomorebrainwashing #citizens4reality #calltoactionforUS
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