Myth making in America

 

Friday, September 25, 2020

 

The year 2020 will go down as one of the worst years of my life rivaling 2001 which saw 911 the death my hero George Harrison and the death of my mother.
My best friend died January that was before covid-19 and hit and then I slowly watched the stake get driven into the heart of Journalism which is one of my great love.
Of course it was a mercy killing because journalism has been dying for a long time most evident from 2016 on where media like the New York Times And The Washington Post completely lost any sense of ethics.
What we get from media these days is what they want us to know not what we need to know and all the News That's fit to print is rarely printed.
We have wacko sports announcers ranting and raving from the middle of games showing just how the idiot Factor has expanded faster than covid-19.
We have spoiled sports stars kneeling on the playing field against something that they used to get their success, their salaries making ticket prices go for beyond anything a common worker can ever afford.
We have politicians who are screaming the word Nazi as if they actually know the word means.
Last week Hillary Clinton told Biden never to concede the election and then the wonderful reporters go to Trump and ask him will he step down if he loses then spun the story out of context when he says  he doesn’t know, and it depends on if the election is honest or not

This last part of course media failed to report for the most part.
Most of what we get from media these days is half the story it's cold priming and framing stories so you select stories such as black men being shot by cops and exclude all other instances that put it in perspective and then you leave out half the facts so it appears that cops are bad guys and known criminals are good guys and we get riots in the streets.
I was in Newark 1967 not too near the riot zone but close enough and understood that there was some legitimacy back then -- even though many of the riots came after Federal officials passed civil rights legislation and a lot of other legislation that helped blacks get out of the ghetto.
In today's society we live with the illusion of racism not that racism doesn't exist it's just not Jim Crow it's not institutionalized; that's the fantasy.
Part of it is this desperate attempt by media and Democrats to paint Trump is a racist and then to bring down any institution they see as supporting Trump.
The chaos of course they create leads to more violence and more death.
I listen to idiots who are mostly white mostly privileged, mostly living in safe neighborhoods lecturing others about police violence they know nothing about or they hear only on skewed stories from the New York Times or the Washington Post.
They rant and rave about  defunding police and yet when their lives are at risk they are the ones who called 911 as the leader of one of these movements did this week.
They live in a fantasy bubble of Illusion I guess given to them by screwed up professors who live in Ivory Towers do lectures for propaganda at $20,000 a hit as was one lecture on white privilege.
It's hard to determine what truth is since almost none of the people who are ranting and raving actually have personal experience they are ranting and raving over things they know nothing about as one African American leader pointed out in one town none of these people actually walk down any of the ghetto streets at night so they don't know what happens there
Most liberal white do-gooders are preaching about things they know nothing about even going as far as to say people should not be ticketed for litter because it will put them at risk of being phased off by cops and cops want to kill black.
Another time maybe a decade ago or more this person would have been put in the loony bin now people or taking it far too seriously.
The riots we had over the last couple of days are typical of this Misguided and sometimes blatantly political movement that will make a scapegoat out of a cop for making mistake accusing him of murder when clearly that was not the case but the facts do not matter to these groups who are trying to sell us an agenda. Yet we get idiots like George Clooney putting their two cents in as if Clooney knew what he was talking about.
I guess the line that most hits all of this comes from the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in which the editor tears up the notes of his reporter after hearing the true story and said this is the West when myth confronts truth you print the myth.
And that's what media is doing and people are believing it as fact.