US Media: Dereliction of Duty!

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http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/dereliction_of_duty.html

DERELICTION of DUTY
THE EXODUS OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
A TVNL CHALLENGE
24-Feb-2004

In another time, there would have been questions. In another time, there might have been answers. But then again, in another time there were independent journalists.

In another time, there would have been outrage. In another time, there would have been headlines. But then again, in another time, there were relentless reporters.

But in our time, in the media, there are very few questions. In our time, in the media, there are even fewer answers. There is no outrage, and there are no blaring headlines. In our time, the government has a free hand to act with impunity and without accountability. But then again, in our time, George Bush and his PNAC cohorts are in power.

In our time, the public remains shamefully uninformed. In our time, the distractions, diversions, deceptions and delusions permeate the media. In our time, not asking is patriotic, and not knowing is the norm. If that continues, we will run out of time, in our time.

In our time, someone has to pick up the gauntlet. In that hope, TvNewsLies will review some of the questions that demand answers. We challenge the corporate media to openly and vigorously publicize the secrecy and stonewalling that have surrounded each of them. We challenge the media to pursue the answers to any or all of these questions, so that we may know the truth before the next presidential election. We also challenge the media to explain why we will not know the answers, at least not in our time.

THE QUESTIONS:

[Faygo Kid]

1. Good article, and sadly true

The consolidation of power by Big Media assures that gay marriage, Michael Jackson and "Survivor" will continue to be the big stories. Meanwhile, this country is going to hell in a handbasket. The media has abrogated its role as society's watchdogs, and I fear we are doomed.

[tom_paine]

2. kick

[MS760]

3. Bush was NOT AWOL!

Why has it not yet occurred to anyone that the Bush family may have hired a (close look-a-like) surrogate to serve Bush's military duty? It's really hard for me to believe Bush, at 26, known for all night partying and general carousing, could have ever had the mental discipline to fly a delta wing jet fighter, admittedly a very complex and unforgiving airplane of that era.

An "OUTSTANDING" F-102 pilot Yet!

Having used a surrogate, and then having that surrogate become somehow disabled during Bush's duty term, would explain all of the missing gaps in his service records and documentation.

I suspect that Bush suddenly decided flying wasn't for him and quickly left Texas for Alabama before knowing if his request for transfer was approved or not (it wasn't) because he had no choice, he didn't look quite enough like his disabled stand-in to pass muster and he very likely didn't even have a clue as to how to fly even something as simple as a Cessna 172.