Ugly Ass Opinion

The Propaganda News Coverage available today is really starting to yank my chain. We’re supposed to believe the newscasters are unbiased and providing accurate information. I think not. They’re supplying filtered information deemed acceptable by the Great and Powerful OZ.

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! He’s only there to make sure the newscasters don’t get rambunctious and start spewing the whole truth. Creative journalism is so much more convenient. It keeps the herd in line.

Let’s take the hush-hush trucker protest, shall we? Recap from a previous post, roughly 80% of all truckers are independents who are making the same gross pay scale they made 15 years ago. Fuel costs are wiping out the industry. Families are losing their businesses and homes. At today’s prices, could you survive on the wage you made a decade and a half ago? This effects you and your family in a scary-ass way. If you don’t get why I’m harping on this, or why you should care whether truck drivers succeed or not, get more information here. I hate to repeat m’self.

 ”If truckers are hurting, why don’t they do something?” I’ve seen written over and over again — on forum posts, blogs, gas price article comments and everywhere else I look online. They ARE doing something, they’re protesting. They’re doing it in DROVES, but the media is not allowed to say so. Oh sure, you’ll find the occasional dismissive article. Like this one, that mentions a “few” truckers are at the capitol today. It’s a typical sort of blurb on the subject, so it makes a good example. Lemme draw your attention to a few points.

#1. The article refers to the national average for diesel as $4.20 a gallon. It was $4.55 where I live last week, but what-evah. Then it goes on to quote a truck driver stating it costs him up to $1,400.00 to fill his rig with 220 gallons of fuel. WOW, we think, that can’t be right! It isn’t right. The question is, is it a typo, or deliberate misinformation to make the trucker look stupid?  I’ve seen enough of these to know where the bear shits in the woods — it’s easy to dismiss dumb people, and that’s exactly what the statement intended for you to do.

#2. “Traffic was not significantly affected by the convoy of vehicles,” (Bullshit. The DC traffic reports say otherwise. To their credit, FOX News did show segments on DC traffic reports as the trucks were arriving in large numbers. Sort of a ‘read between the lines’ move. Good for them!) “though a few truckers drove through red lights as they honked their horns.” How many vehicles of all shapes and sizes run red lights in DC every day?  Is it generally newsworthy? Nope, just one last jab at the evil truckers.

#3. And this is the most important, so listen up. The media has been told to bury the trucker protest. It is to be a non-story. A small blurb that accounts for the occasional leaked photo, nothing more. You won’t find significant coverage of this movement on the TV, the radio or standard internet news, because OZ HAS SPOKEN. Why? Because if a significant number of Americans start to read the writing on the wall, they’re going to get very, very nervous.

High fuel prices + No income increases = Failed trucking industry.      Failed trucking industry + Decrepit rail system = Food shortages.     Food shortages + Failing economy = Lord of the Flies.

Slanting the media is simply a measure of keeping the herd under control. The next time you turn on the news, read between the lines. Use your common sense to listen to what isn’t being said as much as what is. Remember Hurricane Katrina? The atrocities you saw on television were only what broadcasters were ALLOWED to show you. There was more, and it was worse. My spouse spent 2 1/2 months there. 

Makes you wonder what else you’re not being told, doesn’t it?

–For more about media coverage, check out Dusty’s take on McJournalism. If you can’t touch ‘em with truth, might as well baffle ‘em with bullshit.–

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