Ted Koppel writes in the Washington Post a blistering critique of news journalism of today, declaring: “…the death of the real news.” Indeed he has eloquently placed the blame on what we can all plainly see, alas, those few left with cognitive thinking power. Our school budgets drastically cut until after 30 years of Reagan, Bush, and the American non-tax-payer; not even 20% of the country can identify Iraq on a world map. For those of you so bewildered that is a country we were led into a war under false pretenses and our armed forces bravely fall on their soil every week since 2001. As Ted Koppel points out our country no longer gets world news because the networks cut the budgets of foreign news correspondence to nil. Most Americans believe our president that our war in Iraq is over yet, there is no news for us coming from Iraq. According to Ted Koppel our news is catered to every taste and biased to what we want to hear. But journalism is about bringing us news we need to hear.
Thanks to Ted Koppel pointing out what is very obvious that our news is not telling us what we need to know. As a viewer I can always tell when news is being sold out. I have that sixth sense which makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when my intelligence is being insulted. I know articles and commentary should point out causes of reports and I receive only omissions and deceit. A great deal of people, seem too busy to notice or care. I care and notice what exactly is missing in our news today.
First off what has been the response of countries towards the United States specifically after 9/11. Our country is being look upon as a third rate democracy in which capitalism oversteps its bounds into common decency. We are seen as a vengeful bully stomping on the wrong types of people and perhaps should be turning this aggression towards our leaders. After all, most of the free world at this point in time believes that 9/11 was an inside job, helped along by the corporate-will for profit exploited from other people’s misery. The world trade centers and pentagon destruction have been more likely caused by assistance from non-Arabs with fanatical headsets. The headsets of the conspirators are those that profit the most under our corrupt form of “democracy.” It is these questions that we need news to answer and unlock the source of news discrepancies versus the official government propaganda-lies. This is what we need to know for certain: who really was behind 9/11 and who is covering for whom?
Secondly, our country needs a new way to present interested parties who wish to run for office. The two-party system is a failure of American democracy. What we have left is two biased opposing views which promote deadlock. Nothing gets done right in our government. What does go through is pushed by the most unethical practices for a true democracy. One party claims to be conservative yet spends trillions upon trillions of our tax dollars on unjust wars and unethical detentions. Add this non-conservative nature of tax cuts for the well to do, unleash corporate profiteers on a unarmed citizenry, and bail out corporations when greed gets the best of them all at taxpayer expense. Our citizens mostly believe in conservative government which is fair for all people, however our conservative party consistently votes on matters of budget extravaganza and issues that are unfair to people in favor of corporate profit. Our other party when it finally gets control careens so far to the left as to fall into the ditch of socialism. Our government needs to get all the corporate money out of campaign finance and put that money toward investigating the corruption.
Thirdly and most important, basic services need to be provided and assured by our government. These services must come from taxpayers. Without taxpayers a government can not properly function. To restore our government’s income the rich need to pay a fair amount of their good fortune in taxes. This trickle down effect has failed. Profit windfalls are not going back into investing in American production this money is going directly offshore. Offshore to buying factories overseas where labor laws are non-existent. The rich have not only bankrupted our government they have reinvested those former tax dollars outside our country. What is not reinvested is being horded and accumulated. Tax rates need to go back towards 50-75% before Reagan started the illogical imbalanced notion that nobody needs to pay for government. These taxes on the very rich who make over 1 million per year annually should never have come down to 30% with as many loopholes they were already provided. Those that make between 200k and 1 million also need a rate increase to balance our huge annual deficit. If you think we need to go and destroy the Taliban, Korea, Communism, or what-ever then we need to raise taxes. You can not spend 1 trillion dollars a year on the military when you do not have the money to do so. Your country will go broke. Yes our country has about 1 year left and our dollar will completely collapse. If you do not act now the greatest nation on the planet will be taken out by the power of compound interest. We already borrow at least 100 billion per month just to pay our debts. Fifty four trillion dollars in debt our country pays with our tax dollars. Our government should not meddle in other countries while we have such chaos in our own democracy. We need campaign finance reform, better public schools, more college grants, sensible health care, and finally we need to turn Homeland security back to investigating white collar crime. TSA need to quit touching our junk and look into all that corporate junk. I am sure they will find Osama Bin-Laden in some fine corporate office eating caviar watching FBI confiscated video of the cruise missile that really hit the Pentagon.
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