CNN, Fox, ABC, HLN... and I can't help but be opinionated on what I see. So where do I begin?
Well, I can start with what is dominating the news as we speak...a financial crisis that could cripple our economy even more than it already is and Casey Anthony.
I want to say a few things on the Casey Anthony trial, the one who got away with murder. Everyone has an opinion on the whole Casey Anthony verdict. I mean, I walk into a grocery store, and I hear people arguing their opinions right in the bread isle. The fact remains; there simply was not enough evidence to convict her for murder. That's not to say that I think she is by any means innocent. She is extremely guilty. Maybe no one can prove she killed anybody, but she is most certainly guilty of being a horrible parent and a liar. Horrible for not performing her role as a parent by calling the authorities when her daughter went missing, and for the many other accusations that came out during her investigation. She has to get more time than what she got! Either she killed her daughter or tried to cover up an accidental death...both in my book are pretty sick.
I was watching the news a few months back, and this woman had told South Florida police officers that she had an infant son that went missing and that the last person he had been with was the nanny. So Christmas eve, police officers searched for this so called baby boy. Later, they come to find out that the woman never had a baby, and that she lied about it in order to "trap" her boyfriend in their relationship. Well, like any lie, the truth eventually comes out...I mean, of course the man came and wanted to meet his alleged son. When he came by, she panicked. This woman was found guilty of lying to the authorities and got sentenced to some jail time yet.
Casey Anthony had a ‘real’ child who turned up dead and wrapped in a plastic bag in the woods. Should Casey Anthony maybe have gotten a harsher sentence? Not only for lying to authorities but covering up a death? How does that make any sense? Well it simply doesn’t…
So, stories like this dominate American news…stories of people getting away with murder; and republicans and democrats bickering like children over political affairs while America struggles through a monetary crisis. What's really happening behind the scenes? What is being said and done without our awareness? What the American people want to hear and should hear is completely different. As is what is actually being told to us. The wave of media deregulation has been lubricated by big media money and influenced by the few high power players in society. Basically, the common people are left out, and we are being force fed what the corporate media wants us to know, or what will provide the media networks with the best profit margin.
When I got back from Europe, people asked me why I didn’t go to Greece, apparently unaware that Athens at the moment is in huge political turmoil with protesters being beat on the streets of the city. Maybe news networks covered it minimally, but instead, politicians who control the popular media networks are dominating the media agenda.
What really irks me is when people complain that the liberal media is driving this country into a socialist liberal frenzy…when those who complain about liberal media fully understand the corruption of our corporate and political leaders and are ok with a democracy that is controlled by the highest 10 percent of society. So, on that note...I leave you all with a few stories I find significant and important:
Somalia Drought Is 'Worst Humanitarian Crisis': U.N.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/10/somalia-drought-worst-humanitarian-crisis-_n_894072.html
U.S. War Costs Reach At Least $3.7 Trillion And Counting:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/us-war-costs-3-trillion_n_886879.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl16%7Csec1_lnk2%7C74188
South Sudan Becomes World's Newest Nation:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/south-sudan-worlds-newest_n_893552.html
Canada Polar Bears Getting Protection Under Species At-Risk Legislation:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/07/12/canada-polar-bears-gettin_n_896443.html?just_reloaded=1
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