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News Media: A place where you can show a five year old child with his arms blown off by American munitions... payed for by our tax dollars...

But you're not allowed to say 'f**k' because it's obscene...

I don't trust the media. They are subversive. At the moment, I have the least trust for the media's portrayal of events in Iraq because the Marines they interview usually have a positive outlook on the situation, then they put the camera back on the anchor who then bad mouths Bush and his Iraq policy. Considering that the War on Terror is the most significant threat to national secutiry since the end of the Cold War, they should at leat present a balanced picture of the situation.

Unfortunatly, since we are a minority in the sense that we want to see actual news instead of four diffrent people stateing the same fact repeatedly and re-paraphrasing it. Then there is the overabundance of things that are not even really news that take presidance over things that acutulally hold some signifigance. Such as how the one time I was watching CNN and they interupted a report on how Nike falsified documents on the number of sweatshops they run in third world nations with a high speed car chase in California.

Well, to an extent, I'd agree with that. The actions of some newspapers over here in reporting certain incidents allegedly involving British troops were tantamount to treason. I actually believe the media people responsible should have been put up against a wall and shot.

Media and politics can no longer be seperated.

Yeah, the media just makes itself into an arm of their pet polititical agenda.

What p___es me off even more is Durban's comments about Guantanamo and likening it to Nazi Germany, Soviet Gulachs, and Pol Pot's camps. Yeah, people can say he's just expressing his views but I have to agree with other people much more who note the fact that words like that not only inspire the terrorists more but give foreign media something they can and will twist out of context to highten anti-american fervor. It's been going on a long time like that and as much as people really wanna sit here and call America and GWB the problem, it's really the fact that we're attacking people's right to be apathetic about all this. Truth is at Guantanamo they have it better than if they hadn't been captured at all - three meals a day, a free copy of the Koran handled as carefully as possible, they'd NEVER show us that kind of courtesy if they picked us up and imprisoned us. Problem is we care that much about world opinion, the world is sick with power-envy, and there's no amount of a__-kissing we can do to decrease the ammount of hate there is toward us. It's not about us having evil foreign policies, its the fact that we're calling other countries on their apathy and corruption (that and we're the last superpower).

Now at least we have talk radio to present the right's side of things where ever since the 60's its almost always been anti-U.S. even here to a point (in the 1980's if you were against communism in the U.S.S.R. you were a "cold warrior", kinda like being a "neo-con" today). I just wish that if people were gonna talk so much s___ that they'd come up with a better plan, they have it nice and easy because no one's asking that of em and they can just nitpick anything and everything all to hell from that end.