The Media Of Division.

By Keith Brock
October 12, 2009
Can-you-hear-us-now.blogspot.com

First, I would like to thank all who have taken the time to express their thoughts and concerns I have read. I am older, so my views are more conservative than many of you who probably are younger than I. That, by-the-way, isn’t particularly a curse. It is more a fact of life. Which of us have the sagacity at 22 that we do at 52? I think most of you would agree with me that the sententious mind of youth simply don’t have the hooks to hang their experiences on to form knowledge. Life is thrown against the wall and slides to the floor but as time goes by, there are failures, successes, pain, laughter, death of a loved one… and the hooks somehow seem to appear in our life and understanding seems to catch and build a step to the next higher level of cognitive ability. This introduction brings me to my point.

The state of the decline of today’s media is not their lack of a flexible business model to transition from delivery via airwaves and print to PC’s, I believe it is based on the start of a fracture in our nation that can be viewed in the start of the North against the South feud that left more people dead than all the other wars combined – and remember: brother was fighting against brother. I can attest to that now seeping into my own family.

We as a nation are like a family that is becoming dysfunctional and both government and the press have abdicated their responsibility in protecting the extremely delicate fabric that our entire nation rest. Instead of looking at the 80% we all might overlap and agree; areas where the confluence of our ideas and beliefs could come together and we could build and make each other stronger, both politicians and the media have acted as wedges. Media long ago gave up reporting the news and started shaping the news. Why? Because news is made, written and presented by humans, each with their own mores, morals, beliefs, hates, psychotic bents – it’s called humankind. No matter how we try to walk the strait and narrow way – yes I meant “hard” and narrow, how much easier it is to take the path to fame, glory, wealth, praise…. Who wants to work in a copy room and never be seen? People want to have an impact who are drawn to media. Many have agendas and it isn’t necessarily to deliver truth – it is to form opinions, shape behavior; it’s power.

When we look at Fox News, CNN et, el. we are looking superficially at what is happening in America. We are being divided into gang’s. I don’t know anything about gangs in the inner city where to survive you have to possibly join one, but I do see that through politicians and the media we are becoming the “Red” state and the “Blue” states. We are starting to mark out territories and one day in the future my concern is that “Party” will be far more important the local civics, or state civics. I am truly fearful of the power that is being drawn toward Washington, D.C., not for me but regarding the next, and following generations. As the Federal Governent becomes more powerful there will be those that resist and there will be those that abstain and there will be those that will die for the cause of the governennt because the government will be the mother, father, provider – the political class is the fastest growing class in the nation and with union bosses gaining in power through these unions, they must be also factored as big-time players in the future.

As we become more fractured, more dysfunctional, less educated and ignorant, as the world spends much more time in the classroom for longer periods with substantial consequences if you don’t succeed, our nation will be learning to speak in a dumb-down language so we can continute to communicate with each other. I lay much of this at the very feet of the media in America. They were given an extremely important charage by our Founding Fathers, through freedom of the press and speech – to keep the government honest and to brokers of truth. They have sold out as whores and I find them more and more like gutter trash. They have let you down, me down, my children down. God help us if they don’t get their bearing back because they, with the politicians striving for power over a more and more fractured nation, will be one of the catalyst that throws a lit candle into a nation of dynamite that is just on the edge of exploding.

Doesn’t anyone understand that our nation is not growing together but is growing apart and that the greatest enemy in the future may not be Chavez with nuclear weapons, but you and I with hatred and anger in our hearts toward each other because we have been manipulated by the wordsmiths, who are failing us, and politicians, who would do almost anything to stay in power – even long after they are washed up. Hmmm, who would fit that description?

In closing, for those who actually have stayed with me to the end, the press is showing the symptoms of a very ill patient that is deranged in the belief of its problems. It isn’t because the internet is the new medium for transmitting ideas and knowledge that they have fallen from such lofty heights, as have our politicians, it is because they have forsaken the words of truth and facts for the words that mold and shape and we have become aware; become distrustful, and have started turning more and more to those to whom we believe. We are becoming divided and if we continue we will not last another hundred years as a nation. There will be too much blood in the streets for words lead to consequences and actions and there are people in this nation who have been silent for a very long time but have reached the point in their mind of preparing for future war.

I blame the press, for forsaking truth and becoming dividers by drawing from the ranks to their own; I blame the politicians that once in power would sell their soul to stay there.

I’m just a simple man on a simple path. I hope we find away to stay on the same one, for our nation and for our children’s sake.