6/6/07
As I grew sleepy and weary from enjoying the
fruits of capitalism, some thoughts seemed to drift up from the outer reaches
of consciousness and capture my attention:
I was thinking: Sometime, we need to step back
from the fumes and froth generated by the media and take stock of our relative
positions in the galaxy. Apparently, we are mandated by some cosmic force to
accept farcical propaganda at the slightest suggestion by someone who is an
expert in media transactions and strongly influence the modulation of public
sentiment. Of course, the old journalism standards are now so much intellectual
cat litter since Edward R. Murrow [1]and
his pro Marxist propaganda rants, but some still insist that there are sincere
and dedicated public servants serving us up an unbiased account of the news and
current public views.
We are apparently expected to gaze upon the hallowed
countenance of Walter Duranty, Pulitzer Prize Winner in the Absolute Lies
Category, as it glares down upon us from the lobby of the New York Times wall
in defiant glory. Red Walter, who prostrated himself to the outer frontiers of
leftist-inspired journalism with a frank and determined disdain for any
semblance of truth, honesty, or history and gleefully embraced progressive
journalism so as to provide a suitable propaganda shield to hide the Russian
atrocities where millions died opposing Marxism and other follies. Modern
journalism is now based on the lofty notion that the correct political view
requires a theatrical performance featuring a process of retrograde
concubinage, revisionism, meat house style redactions, and meticulous sorting
of facts that are to be assembled in retrograde fashion to support the
political truth. While the details must be trimmed or trampled upon to suit The
Times and the intellectual light of reason and honesty dimmed or extinguished
as necessary.
Then, from out of nowhere, a message from the
ethereal ethers (or my monitor screen) invaded my beta waves:
We have recently been alerted by a clarion call
from Bernard Shaw [2] who
has identified, if not only by the leading ratings, a news service that has
failed to bow and grovel before the ordained News and Truth Oracles of
the New York Times. The gross and insolent effrontery of Fox News
toward the approved political themes so dear to the leftists is hailed as
journalistic holocaust of Cambodian proportions.
A sampling of how modern TV journalism out to be
from CNN’s former anchor Mr. Bernard Shaw:
What Fox does, he said,
is "commentary, personal analysis."
No!
Calling himself
"very straitlaced [and] very old-fashioned," Shaw said: "When
anchors are reporting the news, they should report the news and allow the
viewers at home to decide what they think about issues.
"I don't want to
hear an anchor's personal opinion about anything. Just report the news.
Oh no!! I have been the
victim of personal opinions!! Oh, woe is me! Repenting in light of this stern
lecture on my manifold deficiencies, and while hurriedly perusing the media
archives seeking more samples of instant liberal nirvana and daydreaming of new
ways to emulate a compliant liberal so as to attain some modicum of
enlightenment that might charm a Clinton or a Kennedy, I was suddenly reminded
of the Strange Case of Dan Rather[3].
In slobbering denial of any potential inconsistency in the esteemed view of Mr.
Shaw, I was thrown into a conundrum as how to reconcile Dan’s suspected
fabrication [by Fox News!!!] of the news in the Bush case. Off to the keyboard
for research!
I also learned that the illness is spreading:
"But CNN continues
to ape many of the on-air mannerisms of the Fox News Network, and I don't like
that," he said.
I don’t watch CNN, unless Lou Dobbs is on. I
must confess. Is he an anchor??
By pure chance, I stumbled across this snippet
from a renowned Anchor who would not tolerate the Fox Disease or proffer lies
or spin the truth!!:
“DAN RATHER, CBS NEWS ANCHOR: I know that this
story is true. I believe that the witnesses and the documents are authentic. We
wouldn't have gone to air if they would not have been. There isn't going to be
-- there's no -- what you're saying apology? [4]
See there!! The truth is known.
Then I wondered: Is there any conflict here
between the venerated Mr. Shaw and his flat journalistic assertions that he
doesn’t like to hear “…anchor's personal opinion? And the need to
avoid “commentary, [and] personal analysis?" I was
suddenly unable to resolve this error. I was frantic.
The search continued:
From the San Francisco we read:[5]
“When Rather released a statement Monday
saying, "Please know that nothing is more important to us than people's
trust in our ability and our commitment to report fairly and truthfully,"
it had the whiff of the old parental chestnut, "Do as I say, not as I do."--
Tim Goodman, SFgate.com
This article then continues on with a mandatory
attack on Fox News, whom, to my knowledge, did not exactly set up Dan with
phony papers although I am beginning to suspect that such nefarious activity
might rate leftist rave reviews and at least a few bravoes. Perhaps Dan can be
vindicated by exposing some alleged irregularities on the part of Fox! A way
out!
Why is Fox News always at fault here? A
conspiracy!
"Ratings for 'CBS
Evening News With Dan Rather' fell by 10 percent last week compared to a year
ago, a drop that network sources privately attributed to the steady erosion of
news viewers rather than the controversy surrounding CBS' decision to air
dubious documents attacking President Bush's National Guard service," the
Chicago Tribune reported today.[6]
Oh?!
We all know that modern leftist journalism did
not cause this!! Nothing is more important that “…people's trust in our
ability.” It must be the fault of Fox News.
Accidentally, I flash-backed a fed decades in a
frantic search for a suitable retort, which turned out to be a buried and
festering comment from Walter Conkrite from some hours or days after the Tet
Offensive in Viet Nam where he seems to declare that:
‘we lost the war.’-- Walter Conkrite
1968. Heard on the radio in the South China Sea.
Strange, when this oracle was delivered, ex
cathedra, from the lofty Anchor Position of CBS, I had just disengaged from
a furious battle off the Viet Nam coast and had watched our gun ships
liquidate thousands of Viet Cong. We lost?? Nobody told me! The VC were
annihilated and never appeared at a press conference again.
I now suspected subterfuge and reexamined the
Bernard Shaw comments with some alacrity.
I suddenly realized as I recovered from the
frightening dream that Bernard Shaw was not exactly offering us some objective
criticism of breaches of proper journalism and alerting us to the evils of Fox
News, I was just temporarily unduly influenced by a sour, old liberal parasite,
cast in the haughty, elitist Conkrite Mold, who would say or do anything to
advance the tenets of sloth, sodomy, liberalism and Tax Maggotry.[7]
That was a close call!!
Relieved, I started to serenely drift back into
slumber land, but as I did, the evolution of my second poem [8]seemed
to spontaneously pull together in my mind:
Rather than Rather I
would first peruse Baloney or Blather.
Later………
[8] p://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/e1c160e7-82da-4737-a4a5-e69a4124657e on Vinegar John Kerry the Flip Flop Man.
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