Posted on 07/17/2014
When we do have a room with a TV while travelling we are always struck by the varying quality of the international news channels. In Thailand we got Le Monde out of France, the British BBC, DW from Germany, China’s CCTV, Al Jazeera from Qatar, NHK out of Japan, as well as news channels from South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Russia and the US.
What is most disturbing is that the US news – Fox News and CNN – are far and away the worst. In fact they are not even news channels. They titillate and entertain with their Ken and Barbie fashion show, hiring illiterate supermodels to deliver the daily dose of gossip column quality distraction.
My wife had a great idea for a t-shirt: FOX- Fear Or Xenophobia. I won’t bother to define the latter word since those who don’t know what it means are problem busy watching, well, Fox News. From the scary Swine Flu to the ominous Guantanamo prisoners who would surely somehow bomb New York if tried there, to the ghoulish “socialist” health care bill. Every purported news story on Fox News one morning was instead a giant fear bomb dropped on the viewer to put them into a mindless inert state of blind obedience to some invisible right-wing Robocop fascist corporate state.
I would encourage all of you to write a letter of support to both your Congressperson and the FCC suggesting the possibility that Fox News and CNN have, by virtue of their dumbing down of the population, become a threat to our national security and that their licenses should be revoked.
Two of the best television news networks are Russia’s RT News and Iran’s Press TV. I have recently had the honor of working with both. Recently Press TV was dropped by Eurosat in a blatant act of censorship by the EU.
News media have a contractual obligation to serve the public good. All news has a certain bias, if only because of what is considered newsworthy in the first place. A diversity of opinion is healthy in a democracy. But the public owns the nation’s airwaves, which the FCC is charged with doling out to radio and TV stations. The public then, has the right to decide on a democratic basis who gets to use those airwaves. It’s not about “money equals free speech”, as the whacko far right would have us believe. The Constitution says nothing about that. It’s about public airwaves employed for the public good.
I would argue that neither CNN nor Fox News in their current form serve the public good. There must be more worthy news sources who deserve an FCC license to operate in the US. Press TV, RT News and Al-Jazeera are just a few that come to mind.
Fear Or Xenophobia – brought to you by the Zionist Rupert Murdoch and Saudi Prince Alaweed bin Talal – the two biggest shareholders of Newscorp. It’s time to rid our democracy of this mindless indoctrination. It is a threat to our national security. I’m calling for a publicly circulated referendum to pull the plug on both Fox News and the billionaire Ted Turner’s CNN.
Dean Henderson is the author of five books: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network, The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries, Das Kartell der Federal Reserve, Stickin’ it to the Matrix & The Federal Reserve Cartel. You can subscribe free to his weekly Left Hook column @ www.hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com
Doin the homework,speakin yer truth can be so frustrating.Sometimes I wonder how dumbed down and out of it humanity can become.On a more positive note,the numbskull bit is being controlled by 00,1% of the rest.If this is the case isn,t it about time the rest did something about it.I rest my case.
ReplyDeleteGo boys,brilliant work,best of British and American to you.Yee hah.{Eat yer heart out John Wayne}
ReplyDeleteThe present Prime Minister{Rhymes with sinister.}of this particular place on Planet Earth where I abide has or had a mother called Judith Lasar.Judith Lazar is or was an Austrian Jewess who just happened to marry a Kiwi pilot after the second world war called Peter Keys.Google up Lazar rhymes with Kazar,Putins Rabbi mentor just happens to have the same moniker.Google Earth Khasahkstan carefully,learn how to do jigsaw puzzles without looking at the picture on the front of the box and try to imagine playing three dimentional chess.You may require something longer than a fifteen second concentration span.Well worth a try though.Anyway John Keys {prime minister of the fifth eye)ex Merryl Lynch,(stockbrokers for Serco)now Bank of America has managed to privatise three brand new tax payer funded prisons just in the Auckland region and hand them over to Serco,to my knowledge ,(distinctly limited.)every military base in New Zealand is now supervised by Serco,John Banks ,one of John Keys cup of tea mates is presently holed up in the Auckland version of the Langham Hotel chain keeping his head down,(don,t panic Johny boy ,the blade will be sharp,you will feel no pain.)I believe this battle will eventually be won right here,stating what is blatantly obvious in full view of anyone who still cares.The internet and its truth is far stronger than any idiot with his finger on the trigger of an atom bomb.How about we focus all of our attention on the situation as it is happening as we (theres a word for it)toward Palestine,aka GAZA.Night all.
ReplyDeleteJust as an afterthought,what was Winston Churchills real name if his mothers name was Jenny Gerome and she was a Jewess from New York who,s father (Gerard,King of Wall St,who flogged her of to the Duke of Marlborough for 54000 pounds bout the same time Nathan Rothschild took over control of the Bank of England and Disreali became the first Jewish Prime Minister of the.....work the rest out yourself.The son of a Jewish mother retains the mothers name,never the name of the gentile.goyim father.Elementary my Dear Watson.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason there is a thing called Israel,(Not a state,never been verified as legal by the United Nations,etc,etc,)is because some big fat sonof a pommie poofter and a New York Slut knew a Lord Balfour who in order to retain his seat in the House of Lords(which is now by the way over 90% Zionist(notice I didn,t say Jewish,do your homework.)scribbled up a thing called the Balfour Agreement.I don,t believe Balfour agreed but he may have got caught in a honey pot.Were there Hiltons and Langhams around in those day,s,Ritzs Savoys.....and the White Club.
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