had an interesting and very frightening talk
with W formerly a New Yorker moved to LA
came back to tell the tale and
with R who was in visiting from Canada
and who has spent quite a bit of time of late
traveling in europe
R explained to me that I would be staggered to know
how much the american media
is censoring what i as an american get to hear and read
and how much more
id get to hear and read were i to start
paying attention to sources like the BBC world news
this i remember from traveling in spain
and in london the last few years
this feeling that i was reading more news
than i was used to
like the veil was taken off
r also talked about China
and how americans know very little about whats really happening over there
how this rapidly growing super-power is running itself in a far less humanitarian way then americans know or that our media shows us
but why would american media care what we think about china?
we also talked about the christian rights
role in politics today
especially in the white house
and R mentioned something quite chilling
which is a possible christian right pressure in media today as well
i know its naiive
and actually just nuts
but i still prefer to think of respected newspapers such as the new york times
as above political and or, (maybe same thing) christian conservative pressure..
R asked me if id seen the new show BIG LOVE
about the polygamist family
hubby and three wives
and i said yes
and its brilliant
he said there was just a review in the new york times
saying this was part of the gay agenda to show other kinds of
marriages to push gay marriages thru
the gay agenda?
so if our media
is slanting our news
caving into political pressure
and or christian conservative pressure
than how the hell are we supposed to even remotely
understand whats going on in our own country?
i feel like im in friggen 1970's Russia all of a sudden
okay some of you might call me paranoid
and many of you might think im the most naiive little idiot
for just STARTING to think
we only get snippets of the truth in our media
but to all of you i ask
how do we find the truth?
what newspaper do we trust?
what newscast do we believe?
is the blog world the only truth?
because we have nothing to lose?
or now that the blog world has begun stepping into the mainstream
will it become just as affected as everyone else
i want to understand my own country
and the world around me
do i need to leave america to read a &#%#&**((# newspaper?!
