Time for Media to Go on Government/Political Payrolls?

About the only person in the United States who doesn’t know full well the bias of media would be someone living off grid with no contact with the outside world, no TV, no Internet, no Newspapers, no Magazines, no Radio. Perhaps someone hiding in the jungles and mountains of a South Pacific Island believeing that WWII is still being fought.

Outside of that kind of environment, everyone else in the country knows that the media is hopelessly partisan and no longer even remotely serves the Public as a watchdog on the government. It doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum you are on, Conservative, Liberal, Libertarian… there is a media source that is totaly behind your agenda and preaches to the choir whenever you listen.

The old Networks and several of the Cable “news” channels are fully in the Liberal camp and will parrot Democratic talking points every chance they get. They will demonize anyone who dissents from the Party othodoxy or who dares to hold a divergent opinion. A Democratic president is next to God in his perfection.

Fox, Rush Limbaugh and much of Talk Radio (what they used to call radio Journalism) are the exact opposite and parrot the Conservative line.

For those of us outside D.C. and outside the media we have nowhere left to turn for actual NEWS and INFORMATION except the internet which is, to be generous, unaccountable.

Perhaps it’s time for the various broadcast and print media to officially move onto the government or Political Party payrolls. We know they are, for all intents and purposes, part of the Party apparatus.The pretense of independence is increasingly silly and even embrassing at this point. For someone at MSNBC to say they are NOT propagandists for the Democratic Party is such a transparent falsehood that they have to feel at least some shame when saying it out loud.

Let’s have some honesty and transparency in the media. Have the Political Parties or the Government go ahead and hire the media to officially perform the public relations, propaganda role which they have assumed.

That might leave room for some enterprising entrepreneurs to start some Journalism businesses devoted to functioning as Watchdogs on the government as we once had in the United States.

The Lighthouse Survival Librarian