Is the MSM irrelevant? Afghan and Iraq war videos on YouTube say "yes"

[KurtNYC]

Seen any coverage of the Afghanistan war on the MSM? I haven't. Does CBS complain when they can't get access to the biggest ecological disaster since WW2 ? Did you see 500,000 protesting GWB in 2004? Not unless you were in NYC or watching C-span 3 or YouTube.

The MSM, specifically cable news, won't show the most relevant footage. And they aren't about to start any time soon. Some who post here plead for the media to "do their job" -- to which I would say 'they are' The problem is that their job is to "be the opiate of the masses." And they do that very well.

The NYTimes ran Noam Cohen's piece yesterday arguing that Iraq and Afghanistan are "The First YouTube War" (sic). And it got me thinking that much more than the wars are ignored by the MSM in their daily maintenance of the bubble of bullshit they would have us all live in. But ultimately, a medium which ignores its audience loses its audience.

Truth is the life-blood of Democracy. And every uploaded video has a piece of the truth in it. Even the ones which pump with a soundtrack of blood-lust rock music while high tech missles are fired from Apache helicopter gunships. People will continue to look for and value truth, in whatever form it takes. Hopefully they won't be looking to the MSM for it.

Let the (MSM's) ratings hit the floor!

[madrchsod]

1. al jazeera has really good coverage of the gulf disaster and...

other news we are not allowed to see. yes the msm is becoming irrelevant with website journalism.

[zeemike]

2. And it is not just an opiate for the masses.

It also shapes our thinking...we have come to accept violence as a normal part of life, and conditioning us to submission to authority.

[jotsy]

3. If only.

I'd say if the MSM were a non factor, we'd be in a lot less trouble. They push whatever they deem as news to propel the corporatocracy's agenda and entirely too many mistake their spin for the genuine article.

I see independence as a more primary component, given truth is too based in perception to be presented objectively. Show me there is no money to follow, and I'll be more convinced that what I'm being told isn't part of the package of an agenda designed to distract us from what is relevant.

k and r