Glenn Greenwald today has written a blog post that nails the newspaper and news media industry (because it is an industry, with its own lobbyists and political influence, never doubt) to the wall, through the balls that all-too-often are lacking in their reporting of real news such as the war or the subterfuge and lying of our ruling Bushes.
But boy can they muster the outrage when a white woman is missing or a half-bright substance addled heiress falls afoul of traffic laws.
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"[in] practicing the dark art of politics...it is often best to keep the lights off"
Richard Cohen let the cat out of the friggin bag on that one. Has there ever been a clearer desire to avoid investigation and knowledge of a political system? Obviously, the chattering media pundits who are oh-s o-much above us Dirty Fuckin Hippies on our blogs, know JUST what is appropriate for us to know, like an overbearing aunt who refuses to let the kids read the Harry Potter books received from their parents for Christmas.
It will, eventually, have to be pounded through these-neo-monarchist twits that here, IN AMERICA, all of these people APART from the Washington Beltway actually constitute the country, and have the inherent RIGHT to know what is being done in the halls of our government. In the end, the relationship of government officials to citizens is one of employee to employer, not ruler to ruled. Whether we act on the information, ignore it, or print it out and use it to line the cat box, it is OURS to decide; not these self-important self-appointed 'guardians of public discourse'.
Light is antiseptic to these types, and the type of government they feel is appropriate for us. Shine the fuckin light Glenn: shine it.
Go read Glenn's piece. It's rage-inducing good. Then keep that rage and direct it toward action.
"Anger is an energy" - Johnny Rotten
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