Once Again, the Media Displays its Support for the Right Wing

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

Regardless of which major news network you watch or read, you are being lied to. The mainstream media fails to offer their viewers and readers the complete truth about anything political since 2016. It has been obvious over the last eight years that millionaires and billionaires stick together.

It doesn’t matter to those reporting the news on television that all right-wing politicians have become the enemies of the majority. These professional politicians, (pardon the foul language), are millionaires and billionaires, and they are a small but powerful club which shares a common goal: more money.

THE PLUTOCRACY GROWS

In 2024 there are more than 22 million millionaires and 813 billionaires in America. These numbers increased over the pandemic. How? In America, money is king and the men and women who compose the working class are considered peasants. Unlike Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, David Brinkley, and others who were paid working man’s wages for their reporting, today’s news “personalities” are paid millions to entertain, not to report the facts. Their employers, like Rupert Murdoch, are billionaires. Republicans have almost eliminated taxes for the super-rich and large corporations.

BIASED REPORTING AT THE RNC

Adjectives are overused and have more influence than they deserve. The networks covering the recent Republican National Convention were misleading the American people in their praise for Trump and his fascist party.

They used words like “unified,” “enthusiastic,” “motivated,” etc., etc., etc. Not once did any of these fake journalists point out the many lies and misleading comments from the many hypocrites who took the stage and shouted out their ludicrous and undeserved praise for Trump and all “Republican” candidates.

WHAT TRUMP REALLY IS AND HOW THE MEDIA LABELS HIM

The media refers to Trump as “unusual,” “different,” “spontaneous,” “an outsider,” and other generous and non-specific terms. Adjectives are misleading and often elevate the actual meaning of the nouns they modify.”

What they have never used are the nouns which accurately describe the real Donald Trump. What he is: a pathological liar, a fascist, a convicted felon, a sexual predator, a tool of Valdimir Putin, a malignant narcissist, and a divider, not a uniter, to echo the words of George W. Bush.

I remember those respected journalists of old. They reported the news, facts only, in one-half hour every evening. Today’s opinionated broadcasters are incapable of informing the American people about what they need to know in 24 hours, or longer.

THE CONTSITUTION NEEDS REVISIONS TO ADAPT TO 21^ST CENTURY LIFE

Our founding fathers knew that the document they signed in 1789 was not perfect; it was a beginning. They believed that the men who served our country in the future would improve upon the Constitution. However, greed and ambition have been strong forces which resulted in misinterpretation and misuse of the words penned by our Founding Fathers. For 248 years most politicians have failed to improve anything with the exception of their own quality of life.

To improve America, some of the most important changes would be term limits for all three branches of our government, and ensuring that every vote counts by eliminating the Electoral College. The Second Amendment must be rewritten or revoked. It is ambiguous, and controversial. This needs to happen now. There are other parts of several Amendments which must be defined clearly for all men to understand.

I also believe that the line in the First Amendment which protects the “freedom of the press” must be removed. The fourth estate no longer exists and today’s pretenders do not deserve any form of protection.

America is having difficulty; it’s hard to breathe in today’s environment. If people do not move forward, they are moving backwards. No person, no country, can simply stand still and survive.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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Source: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/18/2255409/-US-media-has-fallen-and-some-formerly-in-its-ranks-sound-the-alarm-You-go-Jen-Rubin?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web