Fourth Estate and Other Media Lies

The New York Times' famous motto is "All the News That's Fit to Print". In the day, the news was merely reported, and not every five seconds in every venue known to man and woman, elevators, gas pumps, I-Phones. I would bet that in some big law office, there is a flat panel monitor on a lavatory wall, just as there used to be telephones in the stalls.

But today, the news first is made, and then reported, and what is reported from what was made, is interpreted. A game of "Telephone" even before you pick up the paper or flip on your computer.

This reality began to bother me, last weekend, when I went to "The Grove" in Los Angeles. It is merely coincidence that Dennis Prager spent a couple of his programs this week on the same sore subject of our not being able to believe what our media tell us because it is so royally skewed.

Everything that we have been told by pretty much all the media outlets is that people are strapped for cash and won't be spending money at the holidays. Initially, it looked like Black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving) showed a real spurt of purchasing, but, a day or so later, there were clarifications that this was not really the case or that it was tempered by some other factor. It is almost as if "they" whoever "they" are, want people to hear that no one is going out an buying, so that they sort of jump on the not buying band wagon out of, maybe, guilt that if others can't buy, they shouldn't either?

So, I was figuring my soujourn on Saturday at "The Grove" would be an easy one, few people, few cars. After all that's what we are being told--no one's out there because of the economy. But, wait a minute. I couldn't easily get a spot in the lot that is usually the more empty one, near the contract Post Office, by the Children's Place. And the stores were, well, stuffed. And people had shopping bags, and the kids were going to see the Santa Claus.

And yet, we will continue to hear the opposite of what we are actually seeing with our own eyes.

I have long been troubled by the stock market reports. Years ago, you had to read the paper to find out what was happening during a day on Wall Street. Now, every report, everywhere tells you about every up and down. Every movement. "The stock market is down thirty points". "The stock market is up three points." Anyone hearing about this roller coaster is going to run for the hills, and so the story about the market generates further fears, and further losses. Why do they have to do that?

Dennis Prager last week was mentioning how he was in some town where it had snowed, and to hear the reports, it was blizzard conditions everywhere, except when he looked out his hotel window, it was nothing of the sort.

Today, he noted, (and I just cut yesterday's national map out confirming it)that given the cold that has hit us East to West, Global Warming is something of an obvious lie. Except that now, the words are being changed. "Warming" is no longer the operative second part of the phrase. It has been replaced, to adjust for the cognitive dissonance, to "global climate change".

There is nothing that is not being orchestrated for our minds to believe---in small things and bigger things and urgent things. We are being brainwashed and may have nothing whatever we can do about it. Especially if the euphemistically denominated "Fairness Doctrine" is forced upon us by our so-called representatives in Washington.

. "All the News that's Fit To Fake" would appear to be the sub rosa motto.

George would be proud. Not Washington. Orwell.