My Thursday Comments: Nothing in the Media is Real

Rush opened up his program today hammering home the message that "nothing in the media is real." Everything we read in the mainstream media is just set up to drive an agenda.

(Similarly, before Obama was elected and Bush was still in charge, the media was reporting there was a recession. Limbaugh denied that, said the numbers didn't show it, but that the media wanted people to believe there was a recession so that everyone would vote for Obama. Now, the media is saying that there's signs the recession is ending, when of course it isn't.)

I gotta develop this theme a little further, but I was talking about it with a friend of mine this morning. Nothing, practically nothing in the media is real. The oil spill is not killing birds and fish. It's not. They don't know what's killing birds and fish but it isn't the oil spill. New York Times: Apple's iPhone does not have a major problem. They may have a problem with some receivers, and Apple's got this big press conference tomorrow, but if there were a major problem with the iPhone there would be mass returns, there would be people flooding the stores, and that's not happening. I mean that seems forced. All this talk of the stimulus and economic growth, nothing's real, nothing that's reported in the media is real.

More of this at his website. As for the claim that the oil spill isn't responsible for bird and fish deaths, oh please. (Although it is interesting that the media is being kept away from the actual location of the spill. But that doesn't change the fact that it's only common sense that birds and fish are dying because of it.)

But Rush's comments bring up a valid point. How do we, the average citizen, know that what the mainstream media is telling us is real? Has ever been real? Beck in the 1800s, it was newspapers that formented wars in foreign lands, because reporting on those wars would boost their circulations...

People have always believed what they read in print. Nowadays, naive teenagers read stuff on the internet, people telling deliberate lies, and because it's in print - even on the internet where anyone can say anytyhing - people believe it's true. Without even bothering to verify it, they just assume its true.

Neal Boortz tells people on his program to not believe anything he says. He urges listeners to check things out for themselves. Such should be the case of the listener of every news and political program. Don't just take what everyone says as gospel, even if they've got a "Dr." in front of their name or a prestious number of letters after it. Everyone's got an agenda...