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Originally Posted by Redheat
I would settle for the media actually doing their jobs....

I will p.s. this statement by admitting their are journalist that exist who truly want to write objective informative pieces. Sadly their voices are drowned out because they simply cannot produce the revenue for their corporate owners.
That anyone can imagine that there is a "free press" in the United States shows that there is still something that Americans can do well---brainwash people.

Do not think that newspapers are all about making money for their immediate owners. Those who rule the USA are quite prepared to take a loss on their propaganda organs, provided these organs keep people in the dark about larger issues.

I have been re-reading H. G. Wells Shape of Things to Come, published 1933. Much of it is quaint; it is impossible, in general, to predict the future in detail. But it holds up surprisingly well, and displays far more acumen than one finds in the much more brainwashed and suborned "intellectuals" of our own unfortunate era.

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People were not trained to remark the correlations of things; for the most part they were not aware that there was any correlation between things; they imagined this side of life might change and that remain unaltered. The industrialists and financiers built up these monstrous armaments and imposed them on the governments of the time, with a disregard of consequences that seems now absolutely imbecile.... But they wanted their dividends. And in order to pay them those dividends, the dread of war and the need of war had to be kept alive in the public mind.

That was done most conveniently through the Press. You could buy a big newspaper in those days, lock, stock and barrel, for five or ten million dollars, and the profits made on one single battleship came to more than that. Naturally, and according to the best business traditions, the newspapers hired or sold themselves to the war salesmen. What was wrong in that? Telling the news in those days was a trade, not a public duty. A daily paper that had dealt faithfully with this accumulating danger would quite as naturally and necessarily have found its distribution impeded, have found itself vigorously outdone by more richly endowed competitors, able because of their wealth to buy up all the most attractive features, able to outdo it in every way with the common reader.