by Kathy Miner

Created on: April 29, 2008

Corporate owned news channels? Wasn't that just part of the Bush "No Idiot Left Behind" education package. It is the perfect plan, when evaluated through the eyes of the many and the minds of the few. We don't think for ourselves anymore, we don't have time. We assimilate our values and select the cable station that best defines us, and watch our 15 - 30 minutes a day, get our news, and get our opinions formed for us. Drive through mentality for our consumer driven lifestyles, how American... We don't want the whole story, we just want the "do you want fries with that?" version, and that suffices. Depending on the media slant, we hear a microwaveable excerpt of the truth, and we sum it up with commentators who side with the station we select. How perfect. With a political machine so fine that our shut down factories envy their capacity and efficiency, the Clintons, with the help of the media, spin a story about winning in the big states, blatantly disregarding the value of the multitudes in the "smaller, insignificant" states. My, how we marvel at our own malleability. Holding hands with the media bias, the machine states, restates, and states again the elitism of their logic, and, as with violence and sex, we numb little Americans begin to repeat the argument, and not realize we are epitomizing manipulation. We don't think for ourselves, we allow the media to do it for us; with their polls, their pundits, their tickers across the bottom of the screen, and their left/right wing biased multimedia conglomeration telecasts helping us form the "wright" opinion. Come on America, think for yourselves. Do you really want Monica's boyfriend hosting tea parties in the Rose Garden? I can think of 109,000,000 reasons, without the help of the liberal media, to not give them the key to Pennsylvania Avenue. What about the free ride Billary got for LYING about Bosnia snipers. I would imagine most of us would remember the last time we were shot at. Did the media bias help bury this, or did they help her by saying she "misspoke"? When I misspeak, I lie. And I know it. I would suggest reading some major publications, but I believe they are owned by the same companies as the cable channels. Voters who have the time to shop on Ebay, book their flights online, email jokes, also have the time to educate themselves and think for themselves. When the media is reporting on a plane crash or a tornado, go ahead and give them their day. When the report is on current events, buyer beware. You get what you pay for. Bias is part of our media culture, but you can't recognize it unless you educate yourself. "No Idiot Left Behind" focuses on the lower intellect, not the higher, assuming we have neither the time nor the energy to think for ourselves. I think we do.

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