This is a long thread and I'm not going to read it all tonight. Maybe tomorrow. I just wanted to say that Law And Order SVU is one of the most left wing shows that was ever put on the air and yes that is saying something. At times they spend 10 minutes just preaching the liberal party line. They have no one to counter their views in any way. They present one side of all arguments and which makes their programs propaganda. What they do is the very definition of propaganda.
Hollywood is not the only entity that doesn't tell the entire truth. I recently saw our president talking about fully automatic weapons being sold over the net with no background checks and I especially see them talk about the Mexican drug gangs buying machine guns from us and taking them back to Mexico where they are used in the narco-wars. They act as if you can walk into any gun shop and buy a full auto AR-15 for a small amount of money. They paint the NRA as a radical organization that apparently exists for the sole purpose of providing mass killers with their weapons of choice. I didn't join the NRA for that. How about you?
What you will never hear is how the Obama administration provided guns in large numbers for the narco gangs and how those guns have been used to kill many people. You can hear that part of the story on Fox sometimes but never do they talk about why this was done. You might get some gobbledegook about tracing guns blah blah blah. They mention that no effort was ever made to actually track the guns but they do not follow up that angle and mention the real reason those guns were sent across the border which was to make the US gun industry look like horrible villains who ignore background check laws to make sales to drug gangs. Do they not know that AR-15's are flying off the shelves to legitimate buyers? So why would a gun seller risk prison selling to illegal customers?
No one in the media tells the truth about these things. When our president actually implies that we have a problem with fully automatic weapons being sold on the streets then we have a very serious problem. Who is there to counter the claims of the left? The NRA for one. They have been doing a decent job of fighting this battle for a very long time. But now we have what Matt Drudge called the Citizen Journalist - we have the internet and it has given us a voice we never had before. Never. It's more important than the invention of the printing press.
What we shouldn't forget is the printing press caused all sorts of evils. People were burned at the stake for printing things the powers that be didn't like. For example a Bible was printed with notes in the margins that mentioned things like the verses that were supposed to give kings their divine right to rule. Only they also mentioned how those verses had been altered to suit the kings. The man who printed that Bible,
William Tyndale, was burned at the stake. But the Tyndale Bible became the basis for the King James Bible in spite of what King Henry did to him. It's said that 83% of the King James Bible came from Tyndale's work. He won his war and so can we. It might take sacrifice but most good things do.
Efforts at censoring what can be said on the net have already been attempted. We really need to make sure that never happens. They will have us all trying to get a journalism license before long. They've already tried it in fact. And the established press is the worst about it. They are losing their influence and they hate it. Even sports reporters hate internet bloggers and the like. I've seen them go on rants about it for 10 minutes at a time.
The net is freedom of speech on a world wide basis. Stories that need to be heard will be heard on the net. Word of mouth takes people to sites that speak the truth.
So let's forget the main stream media. They are an anachronism now. Their time has come and gone. We are the media now. Let's continue to use our new found power to influence the world.