11/11/05 "Lew Rockwell" -- --
Recently, over these past few weeks,
many newspapers and other mainstream mass media have apologized for
not reporting the truth about the Iraq War. Their weak excuses are
that they were deceived by the lies put forth by the Bush
administration for going to war against a defenseless country and
the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Do not
be fooled by these feeble excuses. Also, don't think that these
apologies absolve you, the average pro-war American, from your
complicity in war crimes committed in your name. The Bush
administration is guilty; the mass media is guilty; and – if you
supported this vile crime against humanity – you too are guilty. I
pray to God every night that all the guilty will receive their
proper judgment and the sooner the better.
Of course the newspapers, etc, did not do their jobs in
investigating the lies and prevarications of the Bush
administration. Of course they are as guilty as the Bush
administration itself in leading the American public into a war of
aggression and making the United States today's international pariah
nation; a pariah nation unequaled since Nazi Germany. But realizing
this fact is not telling the entire story; there is something else
to be considered about this entire sordid affair; there is something
else that points to an even worse blight on a modern America's sick
society and culture. What price will American's pay for fame?
The mass media is a business. They are in business to make money.
Only a fool would run a business trying to sell people something
that they do not want. After 9/11, a very ill-educated, self-
centered, and vindictive American public wanted blood. They wanted
revenge. It mattered not who was the target of that revenge, average
America wanted their blood-thirst satiated in any way possible
against the most convenient target. Those targets wound up being
innocent people bombed in Afghanistan and trumped up charges against
innocents resulting in mass murder in Iraq. "Kill them all and let
God sort them out" was the call. Like a school of piranhas on a wild
feeding frenzy, an ignorant American public sucked up the
propaganda. And what an anti-American, disgraceful sight is was.
The mass media willingly obliged a sick and twisted thirst for
revenge by a sick and twisted American public by giving the crowd
what it wanted. In show business parlance the words would be, "The
show must go on!" and the media gave a spectacular all-American show.
But what is the mass media besides a group of individuals working in
a certain business? From what I've seen working in the mass media
for over 28 years, I can tell you that show business has much more
than its share of dishonest, vain, egotistical, and distasteful
people. Show business has more prima-donnas and vain-glorious people
in it than I have ever had the displeasure of working with in any
other business. The mass media is full of the most wretched people
you'd ever meet. I can count on my right hand the number of truly
honest, good people I've met in this business over these years.
Watch that Fox News or CNN newscaster. Besides dressing and putting
make-up like a prostitute (which, in a way, she is) she just reeks
of insincerity. She doesn't care if she's telling the truth or not.
All she cares about is her career and being on TV. She, and
thousands like her, contaminate the airwaves on your TV nightly.
They don't care about the truth. They only care about their job; and
carrying on the façade that they are important. They are the lowest
of the low. These are fake plastic people living in a make-believe
plastic world. To expect them to tell the truth is like expecting
men to bear children; it's not going to happen.
I've even met on-air announcers who threw away their own families
and children in the pursuit of fame. What sad and disreputable
excuses for human beings these people are. Don't think that I am
talking about just a few of your on-air announcers, I am talking
about the vast majority that you see on TV. The truly dedicated and
honest ones don't make it to fame; they have a conscience and drop
out while they can still look themselves in the mirror.
Most TV announcers have sold their souls to the devil in exchange
for fame. I know, I have met many who readily admit so (it doesn't
matter whether or not you believe in God or Satan – the fact remains
that these people made a pact with the devil in return for fame). We
should not expect anything from them except lies and a full plate of
vanity. Of course they lied about Iraq. Of course they'll lie about
anything. They have no conscience. After all, all they want to be is
on TV and to do so, they think they have to give the public what it
wants. It doesn't matter if it's the truth or not. Joe six-pack
doesn't like the truth; if the mass media told the truth, their
ratings would go down and our little Miss Hot-Shot newscasters might
be out of a job.
And now the public is waking up to the crimes and lies of the Bush
administration. Only a fool would expect that these sick examples of
human perversion who make up our mass media would suddenly change
their ways and begin to tell the truth.
I, for one, look forward to the day when these bastards get what
they deserve: And that is to be an unrecognizable no-body out on the
street begging for a job.
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