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I like it.

No, not exactly. What is ironic is that networks around the world are better at news than we are. Yet, no one does infotainment like the MSM. Networks such as RT are more in the Al Jazeera mold, and are far less propaganda laden than Radio Free Europe ever was. Hillary Clinton has mentioned that the US is losing the information war, due to Al Jazeera and RT. Hillary Clinton, US Losing (the) Information War to Alternative Media

I think the problem with US mainstream news is it's too light on real news and too long on entertainment. Bill Moyers had a commentator on (Marty Kaplan), who has researched local news broadcasts and he stated there was less than 2 minutes (out of possible 30), of real news in most of the newscasts they evaluated.Bill Moyers -- Encore: Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble What the MSM has forgotten in this country is that news is not the reprinting of news releases, nor is the gossip section of the paper real news in any event.

It is demoralizing that a nation that forged the way in televised investigative reporting (such as Watergate, Iran-Contra), has devolved into 24/7 infotainment about plastic surgery for what movie star, a detailed report on who's cheating on whom, and the headlines concerned with some incredible value of a possible trade of which basketball player for two starlets and a yet to be named, made for mini-series scandal. When news moved to the entertainment division we started sinking. Through mergers and acquisitions we whittled news corporations to a mere 6-9 that control information and its flow. And that killed real news here at home.

Six to nine mega corporations control the flow of news, and are too easily allowed to publish what they want, leading to information that supports the big corporations. The Internet has given us many independent journalists, but it's not the same as a real network can provide. Hence, alternative media such as RT, DW, Al Jazeera and others meet a news junkies needs, somewhat.

We still have vestiges of propaganda, such as RFE. When the Soviet system collapsed, we cut way back on our own such efforts thought. Back in the day, I was on RFE several times, and it was my awakening to the political position that an Renaissance Italian composer's music played on a pre-WWII German violin could be straight from American cornfields. I was shocked. I had no idea that reality could be so twisted for propaganda, and I was about 15 at the time. I have since learned that anything is possible in entertainment. Or, State Department vetted radio.

One announcer told the (perhaps East German???), audience that Mozart was from Minnesota. I started laughing so hard, I nearly missed my first entrance in the Turkish Concerto. Fortunately, the concert was taped, so those initial guffaws were edited out. It was brutal. It was tough to laugh silently while the announcer set the history of music firmly into the land of outrageous fiction. Yet, it was funny, even if that wasn't the intent.

I think of it as the Gerald Ford coordination test, even if that leash is tough to attach.

Dreamed about a conversation with the man. Blank look in his eyes, nothing back there. A veritable Ronald Reagan in his ability to appear totally sincere while uttering the lines he's been given, but without the former Borax spokesman's base convictions on policy matters.

Wow. That Newsweek cover was so good that I had to look it up to see if it is real. It is.

Romney is wimpy and very creepy. If he were a serial killer, he would chuckle while boring you to death.

I agree. We need LEADERS in this country. I am really tired of this lesser of two evils choice every four years. I will vote but not for Mitt or Obama. Write in or third party but I will vote!

It should be apparent - from the current state of the economy - that the last thing this country needs is a hedge fund manager with the IQ of an amoeba running it.
Trashing companies does not a good business man make. But it fits right in to the stilted and extremely compromised gray matter and moral structure that the GOP seem to incorporate into their ranks at every turn.
NYC is the perfect example of what happens when a business man gets into politics. It becomes a nightmare for the real people who work for a living and a playground for oligarchs and their spawn.

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The history of the United States has been one of trashing a continent and destroying the minds and freedoms of the people who live there.

The election of Romney might speed up this process, but would not affect the nature of the process itself.

As if our country has a George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, or Abe Lincoln, today. Good luck finding a suitable candidate.

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Hmmm...
Among the Terrorist enemies of stable government -- a Virginia real estate speculator, a sexual abuser of slaves, a and a shill for mafioso smuggler John Hancock.
Then there was the Civil War President who suspended the right of habeas corpus and advocated sending American-born black people "back" to Africa !!

I am not sure that these reprobates are precisely those whom modern America is most in need of !! · ·