The corporate media is as culpable as anyone else re: the Giffords tragedy...

[tex-wyo-dem]

In more sane times, the teabaggers would, at the least, have been ignored or derided as the fringe element that they are. Instead, the "noble" fourth pillar of our democracy turned them into media darlings, creating a "movement" out of thin air. As a deadly consequence, these actions justified in the minds of lunatics their repressed hatred and made violent actions acceptable to some sort of deranged higher cause.

In the mean time, the MSM has downplayed and ignored the true majority of WE THE PEOPLE. Anti-war, pro-universal health care, pro-environment, and on and on...ignored.

But, the teabaggers? Darlings of the media....garnering so much attention that an outside observer would think we are all anti-government intolerant wack-jobs. No wonder other countries think we've lost our minds.

Of course, this has happened before in history...in another country that was under the spell of mass illusion, for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful.

All by design...

And truly sick and twisted...

[EFerrari]

1. Precisely. So every time one of these hacks says we're blaming the right

we must remind them, we're blaming them, too, for enabling this slaughter.

[tex-wyo-dem]

3. Exactly...

Our media is a tool of the oligarchy that sees value in stirring the hornets nest of hatred towards liberals. It's quickly reaching some sort of tipping point, but will eventually turn into something much uglier unless the PTB pulls their antagonist back.

[EFerrari]

5. Here's an opportunity at the NYTs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/opinion/10douthat.html

[frazzled]

2. They are still doing it

I've been busy working all weekend, but I spent yesterday afternoon and evening glued to my set. Then back to work today. Around 5 pm I turned on CNN (MSNBC had already left the story), and they are going all woozy about how this isn't in any way related to right-wing commentators or politicians' words ... and coming up to defend that point of view is Neil Boortz. I turned it off.

I simply cannot believe that even now we cannot have an honest discussion about this in the media. They are indeed complicit.

[tex-wyo-dem]

4. They are indeed culpable...

There is a reason that the founding fathers of our country all saw the vital importance of a free and uncorrupted news media to the healthy functioning of democracy.

Now we have corporate owned propaganda.

Our democracy is in big trouble.

[EFerrari]

6. We have to be very clear. There is a window here for plain speaking, imo.

There's twitter and fb and the comments sections of the papers. There are call in shows and just talking to people we know.

[tex-wyo-dem]

11. Yes, i agree...

As bad as this tragedy is, it does present a moment of opportunity to expose just how bad things have digressed with the political discourse. This shit has got to stop before it gets worse, but the message being wholly owned by the wealthy elite seems at times insurmountable..

This is not the first time in history this sort of thing has happened, and truth does eventually overcome.

[deacon]

7. The root of this problem is the MSM. They abandoned truth for profits. n/t

[Rex]

8. That is it in a nutshell.

We need people in news that actually care about reporting the truth and not ratings for a corporate monster.

[somone]

9. No truer words

[Overseas]

10. Well said! K&R. //nt