THE PROBLEM IS THE PROCESS!!! -----
I was watching "The Daily Show" last night and they had a segment where they went through and highlighted the many inconsistnecies and hypocricies the Bush administration has perpetrated since 2000. I was struck in particular by a number of pairings of news segments in which Bush said, direct from his own mouth, totally incompatible statements. For example, they had a clip of him in 2001 saying "Finding Osama Bin Laden is my number one priority", then of his in 2005 saying "I don't care where he is. That is not a concern of mine at all." There were an unbelievably large number of these sorts of statements.
Just when I was starting to feel that familiar anger at the Bush camp that has sustained me through much of the last five years, I was struck by the fact that I was watching the most insightful, best designed piece of news I had seen in that same period -- AND IT WAS ON A FAKE NEWS SHOW! These pieces of tape are not secret! It is not some incredible investigative journalism by the Daily show that uncovered this footage. These statements were all made on national news programs, and the footage is available for anyone who cares to put it together. Why have the "legitimate" news shows not done so?
My only conclusion is that everyone in power, including the major news networks, has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. What that interest is, I cannot really figure. But, there is simply no other explanation for the manner in which the Bush administration's blatant disregard for facts has been consistently ignored by the mainstream media. More reflections on this in a future update.
--OGW
I was watching "The Daily Show" last night and they had a segment where they went through and highlighted the many inconsistnecies and hypocricies the Bush administration has perpetrated since 2000. I was struck in particular by a number of pairings of news segments in which Bush said, direct from his own mouth, totally incompatible statements. For example, they had a clip of him in 2001 saying "Finding Osama Bin Laden is my number one priority", then of his in 2005 saying "I don't care where he is. That is not a concern of mine at all." There were an unbelievably large number of these sorts of statements.
Just when I was starting to feel that familiar anger at the Bush camp that has sustained me through much of the last five years, I was struck by the fact that I was watching the most insightful, best designed piece of news I had seen in that same period -- AND IT WAS ON A FAKE NEWS SHOW! These pieces of tape are not secret! It is not some incredible investigative journalism by the Daily show that uncovered this footage. These statements were all made on national news programs, and the footage is available for anyone who cares to put it together. Why have the "legitimate" news shows not done so?
My only conclusion is that everyone in power, including the major news networks, has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. What that interest is, I cannot really figure. But, there is simply no other explanation for the manner in which the Bush administration's blatant disregard for facts has been consistently ignored by the mainstream media. More reflections on this in a future update.
--OGW
posted by OGWiseman at 9:44 PM
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