Just Give Me the News, Fair and Balanced

Rarely does a day go by that I don’t mourn the loss of this country’s great and massive communications network of newspapers, television networks and radio. Well technically speaking, we do still have all three venues of broadcasting, but only one is any longer effective and that is radio.

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Somehow or other, radio has escaped the clutches of the truth-twisting, fact-slanting, outright prevarications and quite often, oblivious-to-events as if they hadn’t even happened, that plague the other two major media providers. Unfortunately for Americans, radio is the last in line from which the great majority of news is gleaned. In the days before television, when the family working members returned home from their workplaces, had their supper and cleared the kitchen, the newspaper was unfolded and read from end to end. It was printed in different sections so as to accommodate more than one person anxious to read about their favorite subjects. Dad usually took the front page and national, state and local news section, while Mom settled down with the local town folk happenings along with home-style matters and at least one of the kids grabbed the sports pages. Many times as this was taking place the trusty old, if nothing but static’ey, (before FM), radio was spieling in the background and all were attentive to any blaring “news flashes” that happened to get announced. And when the papers were totally harvested of their bounty, the radio continued to provide periodic news, and weather updates, and entertainment but without pictures. Nowadays, the radio is the choice of news receipt, only for those persons who are confined to their vehicles as TV has pre-empted their viewing for entertainment activities. Our effusive elite liberals consider radio as very gauche and old hat, so only down-to-earth socially conservative people listen to radio where conservative viewpoints are in abundance. Why is this happening? Well I am not a market analyst of any sorts, but my guess is that conservatives have given up on the TV and newsprint media to provide any sizeable degree of information on traditional values or news other than that which the liberals wish to force onto their captive audiences; so they have migrated back to good old radio. There were a few brave liberals that took to the airwaves with their message of socialistic Marxism which was absolutely not tuned in to by any thinking person and the liberals’ quest to dominate the radio airwaves was crushed as were its purveyors; talkers like Mario Cuomo and Al Franken, the biggest failures that come to mind. So; unable to get people to listen to their message of Marxism, they now wish to violate the First Amendment right of Free Speech of others by enacting another incorrectly named piece of legislation they call the “Freedom Doctrine” which takes conservatives off the radio airwaves and forces the public to listen to something which they have not, so far, chosen to do on their own. Sic semper tyrannus! But the most puzzling thing today to my mind is why have the vast majority of what is called the Mainstream Media, meaning the printed word and the televised news services, deserted great numbers of the American public by their unfair tactics of slanting or depressing or just plain old not producing news that they consider to be unfavorable to the liberal politicians? Why can’t they just report the news, as it actually IS, and not revised, distorted, embellished or subtracted from its originality? What ever happened to their journalistic integrity? Fox News is the ONLY media that reports ALL of the news. When a story breaks that is potentially embarrassing to the Obama Administration, don’t look for details on ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN; you won’t even hear about it. Go to Fox News, whether it is a story about Obama or Bush and Cheney; they will have it covered. Coincidentally, DailyFinance.net carried a news item on June 3, 2009 titled, “How Fox News defies ratings gravity” opening with this statement: “The dominance of Fox News in the cable ratings race has lasted through wartime and peacetime, boom and recession, Republican and Democrat. It's not a product of circumstance -- it's a law of nature: irresistible, irreducible and seemingly immutable.” Continuing, the cable financial reporting organization told of how Fox News posted big gains on all day programs and also in primetime while the other major cable competitors MSNBC and CNN plunged to embarrassing digits. They also reported that in the ad-buying, 25 to 54 age adult group, Fox’s numbers were up 30 percent over 2008. During that same period MSNBC’s ad-buying numbers were down 9 percent, while, imagine this, CNN’s numbers were DOWN 37 PERCENT! That tells me a whole lot about who is connecting with the viewers and who is turning them off. The most personally pleasing statistic was that on MSNBC, the program, “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” was really on a countDOWN, posting a 20 percent drop of those important 25 to 54 year old viewers for the first time in three years. I am hoping that the countdown on that most despicable person on TV, including Bart Simpson and Darth Vader, Keith Olbermann is closing in on TEN, the knockout number. With him gone, decency in reporting may yet return to MSNBC. The rival networks, both mainstream and cable, like to say that Fox is biased heavily in favor of conservatives. What they don’t recognize is that a majority of Americans are very family values conservative beings who appreciate a little fairness in reporting BOTH sides of a story, as opposed to the promotion of only the liberal slant. With five outlets, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC, pulling against just ONE, - FOX NEWS and the general public, I wonder who is telling the truth??? I know who is winning the viewers’ hearts.