Major Media Fails

AMERICA’S MAJOR MEDIA FAILS THE LIE DETECTOR
By Michael Turley


One of the greatest challenges of this century is to force the mainstream media to become more professional in their dedication to reporting and to demand that historians not be just shills for the government’s preferred view of history. The problems with the media have become so transparent that any intelligent being can easily see that the so-called professional journalists are too lazy to check their sources and verify the content of their sources information. One of the problems is that they prefer to believe anything, which fits their personal agendas. During the Vietnam War they were too willing to believe anything, which demonized the American military. As one of the KGB propagandists pointed out, “We [KGB disinformation specialists] would publish our anti-war propaganda in KGB owned publications, flack it to press organizations and inevitably one would pick it up. Because they were too lazy to investigate their sources others would invariably give credibility to the disinformation.” Yuri Andropov, who headed up the anti-war propaganda for the KGB bragged that the USSR’s Vietnam propaganda effort was the most successful propaganda mission in KGB history.

Why? Because the major media in the United States was too lazy to research for themselves and the KGB disinformation was supporting the anti-American/anti-War rhetoric they preferred. It supported their agenda. Then the micro-historians were supported by government grants to write the history of the war that excused the government’s extension of the war and subsequent bailing out, leaving our South Vietnamese allies to be conquered by the communists. The failure of the media in the U.S. and it’s determined anti-American agenda, supporting the communist supported protest leaders like Fonda, Hayward, Mark Lane and a soon to become voice for the communist propaganda machine, Navy LT John Kerry led the nation into the darkest abyss of media history. It gave credentials to the worst of journalism and historians. No longer was it vital to compete for credibility. All that was necessary was for major media journalists to agree and follow mutually supportive agendas. The unspoken rule of the media became to hire journalists who agreed with the corporate agenda. Owners and producers attitude is that they tell the public what to believe. The institutions of our nation have become the education camps of those who would have us believe their views are the gospel. But the Democrats force-fed leftist/socialist pabulum has been brought to apocalyptic end by the nomination of John Forbes Kerry for President.

Kerry then displayed the arrogance of a privileged, errant teenage brat by making his four months in Vietnam the cornerstone of his campaign. The immediate and vehement response of the Vietnam Veterans, who had neither forgotten nor forgiven the likes of Hanoi Jane and held Kerry as the epitome of treason, quickly alerted the nation that in spite of their three decades of silence they are some of the nation’s proudest warriors. It caught the Democratic National Committee and John Kerry by surprise. For so long they had gone virtually unopposed by the Vietnam era Veterans that they did not expect the Veterans of that war to unite and oppose their favorite Pretender. For Kerry’s part it is unclear how he could not have expected the opposition of Swift Boat Sailors. The brief history of Swift Boat operations in Vietnam was one of the most successful in Naval history. Swift Boat Sailors hold themselves as one of the proudest and smallest groups of special operations forces in history. No other military force rivals the pride within their ranks. To the Sailors of Swift Boats John Forbes Kerry is the greatest disgrace to their legacy and the most despicable of military examples. Most Swift Boat Sailors, indeed most Veterans see Kerry as the Benedict Arnold of the Twentieth Century. The Democrats now find themselves trapped in the mire of defending their candidate against Veterans of a war long over, while opposing an incumbent present war President.

The fallout from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and all of the Veterans groups who have thrown their support behind the SBVT has been to unmask the media’s and the micro-historians’ perversions of truth. This has brought the nation to a critical crossroads in history. No longer will Americans accept pseudo-intellectual and self style pundits analysis of events. The internet has given rise to instantaneous access to diverse views from intelligent and experienced individuals all over the globe. The media has not responded accordingly. Instead the medias have continued to spew transparent lies and fabrications in a last stand style of a floundering enemy military, which dooms them into irrelevance.

Again, why? In their arrogance they have lost sight of the rise of diversity in communications. The rise localized free press publications in the early seventies should have alerted them that they no longer held the stranglehold on the presses. The rise of independent electronic media should have been a wake up that they no longer were unchallenged for instant reporting of events. Then came affordable PCs and the internet. Not only did they ignore the growing popularity of the internet publications, but they failed to see the advance of blogs and the professionalism of independent websites. So arrogant were the talking heads and egocentric news anchors that they ignored the fact that individuals with skills and experience far beyond their meager reporting of events would be much more qualified for relevant communication of events. The Dan Rathers would no longer be relevant and the Twenty-First Century would not be dictated to by their collective of agenda driven pundits. The harder they tried to protect their self interests the more they exposed their lack of intellectual honesty. Thus comes to close the major media’s agenda. Now they either become sincerely non-biased or fall by the wayside as irrelevant and unnecessary. The end of a sad chapter in the history of partisan media patronizing biased journalism. Proof that any composition 101 student can learn to use the four Ws and H lead, but real writers take the time to do the research and verify the credibility of the information they report and record.

Now Americans have the opportunity to change the way they are reported to and the way their children are taught the truth. It is no longer the choice of the few who would pervert truth to fit their own agendas.

Michael Turley, host of the LAMPLIGHTER
Freelance Writer
Swift Boat Veteran 1967-‘68
boatsturley@yahoo.com