CPT Asshole

Survey on freedom of press

While most are focusing on the study results of over 100,000 high school students that show 1/3 favor more government restrictions on the press, I'm more concerned about the 10% who favor LESS restriction on the press. I'm afraid these are the people who would have given us 4 inch headlines like "F--- BUSH!", for the last 4 years, if they could.

By the way, the Iraqi vote was yesterday, and it's still too early to tell, but there's definately a lot of happy Iraqi's. Looks like everything will turn out fine if we stay the course.

The way the media treats the Bush Administration, it's as if the media is more afraid of looking like a mouthpiece of the government to other media outlets in the world, than they are about being objective, or giving both sides of an issue. The media never seems to take the government's side, and only chooses to report on stories where the government appears to be having trouble, or focusing on aspects of a story that make it appear the government is having trouble, instead of looking at aspects of the same stories that portray the government more favorably. I mean, Watergate is over, sure keep an eye on politicians, but as far as I'm concerned, we should suspect the media as much as we suspect the government.

I guess as long as the U.S. media attacks the U.S. government, the U.S. media assures it's neutrality in the eyes of the rest of the world. So why is the U.S. media concerned more with how the rest of the world views it, than with how we in the U.S. view it? Simple. They already control us, they want what every other conqueror has wanted, the world. I don't mean literal world domination, I mean the U.S. media will control the world's media, just as Hollywood controls the Oscars, if they have their way.

But these are just random thoughts of the moment, I could be wrong. Ahoy from the Captain.

posted by cpt asshole @ 8:53 PM