Is it just me or...?

This morning they spoke of the show "Call Of The Wildman" as an example of how dangerous it really can be dealing with untamed animals in your back yard. It's just a hick that smoked cracked and wrestles wild animals for timber wood, I thought it was just for high people to watch at 4am...guess it's really a learning experience.

 

Call of the Wildman is obviously fake. Those animals are tame. not fooling me....

 

Yea!1!!

 

It's impact is such that we disagree among ourselves about reality:

Another impact is that it teaches us:

It's purpose is personal profit$$$.

 

A while ago I learned that the Faux news network will take a right-wing bias toward everything except gun control, which they think should be banned.

 

Faux news defined. and the others too

 

It is correct to say that the media is highly influenced/biased in the US. My point is that there is far worse.

In the US you can choose between networks or watch/read outside news and you can openly discuss any content.

There are countries, however, where you can get arrested or killed for reporting the "wrong" thing.

Just trying to put things into perspective.

 

Hell, most countries only get a couple channels. I've been to Spain and they have something like 10 channels, all named by their number. Here we have channels dedicated to GOLF for God's sake...

 

During this Presidential campaign, the mainstream media put forth deliberately distorted information about the candidates; and this is just one shining example of how bad things have gotten in the United States. It seems to have gotten much worse since what used to be standard free television that the TV antenna just received through the air, was forcibly changed to Cable TV that everyone had to buy a special box for and also pay for the programming. When I was a kid, you just turned the TV on and had a choice of certainly enough variety - and you didn't have to pay for the programming - once you bought the television, you paid nothing more! Now, I understand that cable TV offers, like, hundreds of channels - but from what I have observed at a friend's house who buys Cable TV, the numbers of channels really translate into the "Illusion of Choice" - and a majority of the choices are crap anyway. It is said that the Cable TV is largely responsible for the "dumbing-down" of America - and basically takes over where the public educational system left off. I do not own, watch; nor do I purchase, cable TV.

I am of the opinion that most; if not all; of the mainstream media producers like FOX, CNN, MSNBC, etc., have all sold out. They are paid to give out deliberately distorted information to the public as part and parcel of the whole insidious big picture; aimed towards the goal of complete control. You want a reality check? Look back in time to a book written by Ray Bradbury called "Fahrenheit 451" - it was written around 1950. It's a story about the future in which the government maintains complete control over society. There are large TV screens in everyone's home that pipes in pre-recorded "shows" controlled by the government so they have authority over what the people listen to and what they watch - because the government doesn't want the people to access true information about what is really going on. As an added asset for the government, they also spy on the citizens through the programmed TV, and on everything that goes on in the home. If I recall correctly, there is a mandatory TV screen in every room of every home - and you can't adjust the dial - the only viewing available it what the government gives you - it comes on when the government turns it on. Sound a bit familiar? Sounds just like the current cable tv in this country to me; and it wouldn't surprise me at all if they were indeed spying.

The title "Fahrenheit 451" refers to the igniting point of paper in a book - the temperature at which it ignites and catches on fire. It was illegal in this story, for anyone to own books - and rather than the Fire Department putting fires out, their job was to set fires - to books and any home in which books were stored or found via the spying network. Books were illegal in that world because they were an avenue to real education and actually learning about the truth. There was a group of dissidents that lived way out in the forest somewhere who would somehow acquire books through the underground - and each member of the group would memorize one book so they could pass the information down to the next generation. It was a trippy story, to be sure.

America is perilously close to complete demise and total fall, I regret to acknowledge and state. But the signs are all around us, and I fear that within our lifetime, things will get really bad for Americans - we are headed into a totalitarian state, and it won't be anything nice. There's a saying that says "history repeats itself", and I just dread the thought of what will soon be repeated here. Our best bet is to
pray, and hopefully we may be protected in the times to come.

Things are so bad here that we have had fundamental rights taken away from us as stated in The Constitution and The Bill of Rights - removed under the guise of "security" by our current leader and the one that came before him. It doesn't take a Rocket Scientist to figure out that they did it for a reason - and it's not going to be in our favor.
These two men literally violated the oath they took to swear to abide by, and uphold, those two documents - they essentially committed treason - and nothing's being done about it. That's how bad it is.
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"The purpose of the government is to protect the privacy, the liberties, and the freedom of the American People .... not to protect the secrecy of the government; not to meddle in the affairs of other countries; not to police the world; and not to tell us how we ought to live." ....... Ron Paul, Presidential Candidate 2012, U.S.A.

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^ Good post. However I don't see government as the only player here. Government doesn't own the media; the media is owned by corporations.

Govenrment is complicit in that they create laws under which private sector broadcasters, advertisers, etc. (the media) operate(s). The newly created laws are "influenced" by corporate cash. I'd say we're headed for plutocracy rather than totolarianism.

So the source of corruption in the media in my view is government and profit driven corporations.

 

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I saw that too. Really had me on the edge of my seat there for a second.

 

Remember that all the major media corporations are owned by people - very rich people who have specific views and standpoints that their corporations are expected to promote. So it's no surprise that the "news" we get is so inaccurate and incomplete.

 

^^Pretty much it right here and the $

 

pretty much. We are fucked as a race, I can see it now. People running and yelling "I should have listened" but nooo you wait until the tanks and aliens to show up.

 

Agree but I belive the government and everything else are controled by 1 source who decide what 'should' happen (agenda) and it just trickles down from rank to rank. This keeps that 1 source extremely secret where only a few if not nobody know exactly what that 'source' is. No way to prove it but I just find it funny that history repeats itself.

 

Shouldn't following the money trail lead us to the source?

 

We also know that the status quo benefits the source because the source has engineered and is keeping things the way they are.

 

Yes he/it has too im guessing to stay in power/control. But what really gets to me is the whole "greneration" aspect or 'passing of the torch'. Im thinking this source either trains the next or It is somehow immortal. And im pretty sure this source doesnt use money as he is full control of all goods/supplies ( im assuming )

 

is that you john wayne , is this me..